Two Russian officials switched roles Thursday, as President Vladimir Putin appointed former Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov to the justice minister post several hours after former Justice Minister Yury Chaika was approved as the new prosecutor general in...

The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court has delayed the verdict in the trial of Zhao Yan , a former New York Times researcher, a defense lawyer said Friday. Zhao has been indicted for "providing state secrets...

Republican House leaders Thursday clarified the timing and purpose of proposed nationwide immigration hearings , deflecting criticism that the hearings were intended to delay a House vote on comprehensive immigration reform until after November elections....

Canadian Justice Minister Vic Toews introduced a bill in the Canadian House of Commons Thursday that would raise the age of sexual consent to 16 in a bid to crack down on Internet predators...

European Union diplomats on Thursday agreed to revive an agreement with the United States that compels European airlines to disclose information about passengers flying from Europe to the US. The EU and US first reached such an...

Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants ended a brief hunger strike late Thursday after Hussein missed only one meal. Hussein began the hunger strike in protest of the murder of one of...

US Central Intelligence Agency counterterrorism agents secretly reviewed financial records of Americans listed in an international database after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks , focusing on people with links to al Qaeda, according to reports...

Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, UN General Assembly, June 22, 2006 . Read the full text of the Optional Protocol....

Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales, Supreme Court of the United States, June 22, 2006 . Read the Court's 8-1 majority opinion ...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding that the US Department of Defense publicly release its files about the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians ...