Polish authorities have arrested five officers, including a colonel and two majors, for allegedly accepting bribes from both US and Iraqi companies while serving in Iraq. Officials from the Polish Defense Ministry claimed that two of the officers were caught red-handed in a Polish airport on their way back from Iraq with $90,000 in cash [...]

With a political compromise over the controversial UK Prevention of Terrorism Bill accepted , the House of Lords approved the latest Commons version of the anti-terror legislation early Friday evening London time, ending the deadlock between the two houses and opening the way for formal royal assent later tonight. BBC News has more.

Conservative leader Michael Howard has said he has accepted a compromise offer by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair that would likely push through contentious anti-terror legislation that had the Commons and Lords locked in back-and-forth debate Thursday night through Friday morning. Under the offer, Blair promised to allow the Commons to review the Prevention of [...]

A Cambodian military court charged two Khmer Rouge leaders with war crimes Friday to prevent the two from being released before a UN-backed tribunal is set up to try them. Court director Ney Thol said that additional violations by the two former leaders came to light in evidence from New Zealand and Australian embassies of [...]

Nepal Friday released former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and 17 others held since King Gyanendra dismissed the elected government and seized power on Feb. 1 . Several other leaders still remain under house arrest, including Nepal's first elected prime minister, Girija Prasad Koirala, and opposition leader Madhav Kumar Nepal. The Nepalese government has come [...]

A Yemeni sheik and his assistant were convicted Thursday on terror-funding charges, bringing to a close a convoluted three-year case that saw the FBI's star witness set himself on fire in front of the White House in an attempt to gain more concessions from the FBI. Sheik Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad and Mohammed Yahya Zayed [...]

The latest US Defense Department documents obtained by the ACLU in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the US goverment indicate that the US held children under 12 at the prison as well as women, at least one of whom, then aged 17, was sexually molested by drunken US personnel who were never charged. [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency finalized Friday a new rule that will cap sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emissions in the eastern half of the country and require reductions to meet those limits. The Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) will cut emissions of the gases in 28 eastern states to 60 and 70 percent of 2003 [...]

The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 is expected to move to the House next week after winning Senate approval Thursday. The bill, long lobbied for by credit card companies, makes it harder for those in debt to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which eliminates almost all debts. Instead, under the legislation, [...]

A French national transferred from Guantanamo Bay to France earlier this week has been released by the French government, his lawyer reported. Mustaq Ali Patel, one of the last three French nationals transferred from Guantanamo on Monday , was released after being held by French authorities for 48 hours. The two other former detainees were [...]