China has rejected a strongly worded UN Security Council official website] resolution responding to North Korea's missile launches earlier this month, instead proposing a mild resolution to encourage North Korea not to launch test-missiles....

A group of twenty retired military officers has submitted a letter to the US Senate Judiciary Committee expressing "deep concern" about the fitness of William Haynes II , the current Pentagon general counsel,...

Khieu Samphan , the former head of state of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime, left his home overnight and headed toward a neighboring province, just hours after prosecutors began compiling evidence against former Khmer...

Colorado state lawmakers passed a bill Monday that will force residents receiving state or federal benefits to prove their citizenship in order to continue receiving aid, in what some are calling one of the toughest...

Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman , presiding over the Saddam Hussein trial , on Tuesday adjourned the trial until July 24 in a bid to give Hussein and his lawyers time to return from a boycott of proceedings....

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) killed the self-confessed mastermind of the 2004 Beslan school siege along with 12 other militants in an early morning special operation Monday, according...

The US military has decided to apply the Geneva Conventions to all detainees held in US military custody around the world, according to Tuesday's Financial Times. The move marks a sharp reversal from a previous policy classifying...

In re: Search of the Rayburn House Office Building Room Number 2113, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, July 10, 2006 [ruling that an FBI raid on the congressional office of US Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) was...

Schulman v. Attorney General, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, July 10, 2006 [ruling that a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage can be placed on the ballot for voter approval, if the amendment is approved by the...

The US military on Monday released the identities of five Army soldiers charged in connection with the rape and murder of an Iraqi woman and the murders of several of her relatives in...