A newly-disclosed memo reveals that US Department of Justice staff initially opposed a controversial 2003 Texas redistricting plan as violative of the Voting Rights Act , concluding that Texas "has not met its burden...

French newspaper Le Figaro reported Friday that two CIA-chartered flights made secret stops in France in 2002 and 2005 , bolstering allegations that the intelligence agency used the flights to transport Islamist terror...

The US Department of Defense said Thursday that it plans to move forward in the trial against a 19-year old Canadian citizen who was charged last month with murdering a US Army...

A United Nations human rights investigator said Friday that prisoner torture in China is declining but is still widespread, and accused Chinese authorities of obstructing his work during a 2-week torture investigation . Manfred Nowak...

Alexei Kurtsin, former manager at Yukos-Moskva - the financial and management center for Russian oil company Yukos , was convicted on Thursday of embezzling and laundering funds and sentenced to 14 years in maximum-security prison. Kurtsin's sentence...

A US Army officer has been arrested on bribery, money laundering, theft, and wire fraud charges as part of an illegal scheme during his service with the US governing administration in Iraq, according to US Department...

A Paris court on Thursday overturned the convictions of six people who were found guilty of pedophilia last year. The six, and several others, had been accused of raping their own and other children, after a...

Kenneth Lee Boyd became the 1,000th person executed Friday since the US Supreme Court reinstated the country's capital punishment program in 1977 after a 10-year moratorium. Boyd, who was convicted of fatally shooting...

The Belgian Chamber , the lower house of parliament, approved a bill on Friday that will allow same-sex couples to legally adopt children. The bill must pass approval by the Belgian Senate before becoming law....

Leading Friday's international brief, the Ugandan government has rejected a call by the Pan African Parliament (PAP) to release Kizza Besigye as illegal and contrary to the aims of the African Union [official...