US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and several Republican US senators expressed optimism over the weekend that the administration and Congress will be able to strike an agreement on legislation to establish military commissions to try Guantanamo Bay...

Bolivians voted Sunday to elect 255 delegates to a special assembly that will rewrite the country’s constitution and decide whether to entrench greater power in the states or in the national government. The Movement Toward Socialism...

Iraqi officials disclosed Sunday that Saddam Hussein's eldest daughter Raghad and first wife Sajida are named on its most-wanted list along with top Baathists and al Qaeda leaders. Iraqi authorities accuse the two of using...

The Pentagon released a declassified version of a 2005 review of US prisoner interrogation practices on Friday. The review, conducted by Vice Adm. Albert T. Church , found that while "interrogation policy could have benefited from additional expertise...

Foreign judges who will preside over the trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders arrived in Cambodia on Sunday in preparation for the genocide tribunal that is slated to begin proceedings [JURIST...

A new so-called “shoot first” (alternatively, "stand your ground") law took effect in Georgia on Saturday allowing state residents to use deadly force to respond to threats in public places with no duty to retreat. The law, which easily...

Serbian Defense Minister Zoran Stankovic said Saturday that US and British intelligence agents are helping with the search for indicted UN war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic . The Serbian government holds that...

Thousands of Parisians marched through the city Saturday in a protest against a contentious new immigration law passed by the French Parliament Friday. The new law...

Former Mexican president Luis Echeverria was under house arrest Saturday after a Mexican appeals court ruled Friday that it had enough evidence to charge him with genocide in connection with his role in putting...

The head of a European inspection team tasked with evaluating the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay said Friday that there may be only 30-40 "real" cases of terrorism there and recommended that the facility be...