Two British officials charged with leaking a UK government memo in which President Bush reportedly suggested bombing the offices of Arab satellite news channel Aljazeera will stand trial by the end of the month, the judge in...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in his traditional year-end press conference Wednesday that he wanted to dedicate his final year in the position to encouraging peace and UN reform [JURIST news...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales requested that the German government not release Mohammed Ali Hamadi, a convicted hijacker accused of killing a US Navy diver, but Germany refused, the Bush administration...
Saddam Hussein on Thursday denounced US denials of his claims that he has been tortured while held by US forces and argued that the US had also lied about Iraq's possession of weapons of...
Defense lawyers for former Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein and seven other former officials on trial are expected to call 40 witnesses, a prosecutor in the case said Sunday. Included among the 40 are three...
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Sunday called for a congressional investigation into the Bush administration's use of domestic spying on terror suspects. Reid called for an investigation and hearings into the intelligence program overseen by the...
Opposition parties in Kazakhstan on Sunday announced they have challenged the results of an election on Dec. 4 that saw President Nursultan Nazarbayev win another term. According to the opposition group "For a free Kazakhstan,"...
A Jordan military court on Sunday sentenced al Qaeda's chief in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and two others to death for a failed suicide bombing on the country's border with Iraq last year. Al-Zarqawi and one of...
Citizens of Congo went to the polls Sunday for the first time in more than 30 years to vote on a draft constitution that could secure lasting peace in the country. Many of the 24 million...
House and Senate negotiators are continuing talks to reconcile versions of a defense appropriation bill, with both sides largely agreeing to a torture ban proposed by Sen. John McCain , but with other provisions remaining in...
