As rioting continues to spread in France , Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Monday announced the implementation of curfews and the deployment of 9,500 police officers and gendarmes in an effort to stop the escalating violence. Under state-of-emergency law, Villepin will impose the measures in as many as 300 localities. Commentators and some European [...]

The US military announced Monday that five members of the 75th Ranger Regiment have been charged with physically assaulting prisoners in Iraq in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice . The five elite soldiers, whose names were not released, were charged in connection with an incident in September 2005 "in which three detainees [...]

CBS News is reporting that file-sharing software developer Grokster has agreed to shut down its operations in order to settle an online piracy lawsuit filed by Hollywood and the music industry. In June 2005, the US Supreme Court ruled unanimously in MGM v. Grokster that owners of file-sharing services can be held liable for contributing [...]

In addition to considering the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case involving Guantanamo tribunals , the US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in three other cases. In Bustillo v. Johnson, the Court will consider the appeal of Honduran national Mario Bustillo who was convicted of killing a Virginia teenager with a baseball bat. Bustillo was never [...]

US President George W. Bush on Monday defended US interrogation techniques in the war on terror and insisted that the US does not torture terror detainees. Answering questions about reports of a secret CIA facility in Eastern Europe and efforts by Vice President Cheney to seek an exemption for the CIA from proposed legislation banning [...]

Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh was removed from his position Monday at his own request after allegations arose that he improperly benefited from the now-defunct UN oil-for-food program in Iraq. According to the government, Singh will remain in the Indian cabinet while Premier Manmohan Singh assumes his position pending a newly-formed judicial commission investigation. According [...]

The UN-Afghan Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) said Monday that final results of Afghanistan's legislative polls will be announced on Wednesday , and that fraud allegations will not call the results into question. The September 18 vote was the first opportunity for Afghans to elect members to its Wolesi Jirga , or lower house of [...]

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was arrested in Chile on Monday at the request of the Peruvian government. Fujimori had arrived from Japan in a bid to reenter Peru and run for the presidency in April 2006, despite the fact that he has been banned from holding public office until 2010. Fujimori was president of [...]

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair urged British members of Parliament Monday "not to compromise with the nation's security" by reducing a proposed legislative 90-day time limit for detaining terror suspects without charge recommended by London's Metropolitan Police. Blair's statement came minutes after Home Secretary Charles Clarke proposed a compromise amendment to the government's Terrorism Bill [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the Bush administration's use of military tribunals for foreign terror suspects. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld comes on appeal from the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, which held in July that Guantanamo Bay detainees may be tried by military commissions , overturning [...]