Australian police arrested 15 terror suspects early Tuesday local time in what Victoria state police chief Christine Nixon characterized as "the largest operation of counterterrorism that's ever been conducted in this country." Some 400 officers were involved. The 15 suspects, including Abu Bakr, a prominent radical Islamic cleric from Melbourne who has praised Osama bin [...]

The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Monday that ICC rules prevent the court from asserting any jurisdiction over claims against Saddam Hussein . Judge Philippe Kirsch , a Canadian, noted that the new world criminal tribunal at The Hague is only authorized to hear claims arising from incidents occuring after July 1st, [...]

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 [...]