Military judge Col. James Pohl has declined a request by lawyers for US Army Pfc. Lynndie England to step down from her Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse case. Defense lawyers claimed that Pohl...

Bearing in mind the experience of Muslims in the United States after 9/11, the London-based Islamic Human Rights Commission has urged UK Muslims to stay indoors to avoid being targeted for revenge in the wake of Thursday's...

Leading Senate Democrats said Thursday that although they appreciate the phone calls from the Bush administration following the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor , they want to know exactly who President Bush is considering as a replacement...

Leading Thursday's international brief, a Peruvian judge has ordered the arrest of 118 current and retired military officers for their alleged involvement in a 1988 attack against the Andean village of Cayara , in which soldiers allegedly...

A Pentagon spokesman said Thursday that there was "no evidence" of widespread abuse of prisoners by medical personnel at Guantanamo, denying earlier media reports . Accusations of physical abuse had followed criticism about use of detainees' medical records...

Lawyers for Mikhail Khodorkovsky announced Thursday after a meeting with prosecutors in Moscow that no new charges had been filed against the former Yukos CEO. Earlier, local media had reported that new money laundering charges were...

An Al-Qaeda group in Iraq has claimed to have executed Eyhab al-Sharif, Egypt's top ambassador to Iraq. He was kidnapped on Saturday shortly after arriving in Baghdad as the first envoy from a major Arab state to the new...

New York Times reporter Judith Miller , who was ordered jailed for contempt after refusing to reveal a source in conjunction with a federal criminal investigation into an intelligence leak, is at the Alexandria Detention Facility...

Indonesia's highest court Thursday rejected a challenge from environmental groups and upheld a law enabling 13 mining companies to operate in protected forests. The Constitutional Court ruled that the law did not violate the 1945 constitution and that...

AP is reporting that the US terror alert level will be raised to code orange for mass transit in the wake of London explosions, according to US officials.12:37 PM ET - The UN...