A federal judge has said that detainees held in the US terror suspect prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, must be asked for permission to have their names released before the government can release them to the Associated Press...

Human trafficking of women and children is on the rise worldwide, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said Tuesday. Addressing an Asia-Pacific human rights conference in Beijing, Arbour called for closer regional partnerships to combat...

Lebanon has arrested three former pro-Syrian security chiefs, and the head of the presidential guard Mustafa Hamdan turned himself into authorities after an arrest warrant was issued for him in connection with the killing of former...

The 32 UN ambassadors who make up the intergovernmental negotiating group named by the UN General Assembly president last week continued negotiations Tuesday on the text to be submitted to September's summit on UN reform ....

Zimbabwe's parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved constitutional reforms that opposition lawmakers and many observers claimed would drastically reduce the rights of the country's citizens. The legislation, approved 103-29 in a legislature dominated by the Zanu PF party...

US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia denounced the increasingly large role politics and moral issues have played in recent judicial appointments and decisions in a speech Monday at Chapman University . Scalia blasted "judge...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has openly criticized the Senate version of the USA PATRIOT and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2005 which was unanimously approved last month. Gonzales told Washington...

The Bangladesh High Court ruled Monday that the country's 1975 military takeover was "illegal" and "void" and that a martial regulation incorporated into the fifth Amendment to the Bangladesh Constitution was invalid. In their opinion, the...

New Orleans CBS affiliate WWL-TV is reporting that martial law has been declared in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish after levee breaks caused major flooding in the city Tuesday morning, sending waves of water through the downtown...

Connecticut filed a federal lawsuit against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Base Closure and Realignment Commission Monday, challenging the BRAC Commission's decision to close Connecticut's Air National Guard 103rd Fighter Wing [official...