US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Monday announced the creation of a new National Security Division at the Department of Justice, bringing "under one umbrella the Department's primary national security elements" as authorized by the...
A US Vietnam-era deserter is being held at a military prison in California after being arrested late last week while crossing the border from Canada. Allen Abney, 56, deserted the US Marine Corps and fled to Canada in 1968...
Eric Schwartz , the UN's deputy special envoy for tsunami recovery on the protection of vulnerable communities in the tsunami region, concluded his 10-day assessment of the region by urging the countries affected by the 2004...
Lawyers for Army Sgt. Michael Smith, currently facing court-martial for allegedly torturing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison with unmuzzled dogs , have withdrawn a request for testimony from prison commander Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey...
The US vowed Monday to reject a proposal to establish a UN Human Rights Council presented by UN General Assembly President Jan Eliasson last week. In remarks at a brief press conference , US Ambassador...
Prisoners in Kabul's Policharki Prison who rioted over the weekend agreed Monday to temporarily end their disturbance and allow injured inmates to be removed for medical care, according to the chief negotiator for...
A series of internal Canadian government memos newly declassified under the Canadian Access to Information Act has increased speculation that the US Central Intelligence Agency has flown terror suspects through Canada as part of an...
Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein, Jordan's UN ambassador and advisor to the secretary-general on the sexual exploitation and abuse in United Nations peacekeeping operations, has told the UN Security Council that it could be three or four...
The United States and Vietnam have ended a three-year suspension on talks regarding human rights and religious freedoms in the communist country, Barry Lowenkron , US Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and...
The next nominee to the Supreme Court of Canada will face televised questioning from a parliamentary committee , Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday. Justice John Major retired from the court in...
