The alleged head of Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) went to trial in Indonesia Monday. Zarkasih is charged with training and equipping JI members as well as conspiracy to commit...
A federal judge ruled Monday that White House visitor logs are public documents , rejecting a Bush administration bid to have the logs treated as confidential presidential records. Visitor logs are compiled by the...
The government of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has amended the controversial Public Order and Security Act , according to Monday media reports. The law prohibits public political gatherings without prior police approval. If police turn down...
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf Friday promulgated an order to amend the Pakistani constitution, allowing the president to declare a state of emergency without parliamentary ratification and providing that any judge who has...
A court in Chad has set December 21 as the trial date for six French nationals connected with the abortive effort by French charity Zoe's Ark to airlift so-called "Darfur orphans" out of...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Friday defended a Russian government directive earlier this week to shut down local offices of the British Council by January 1, saying that the offices in Yekaterinburg and...
Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel-Rahman Shalqam Friday denied that Libya engages in torture in response to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a Palestinian doctor detained in Libya after being accused of deliberately infected hundreds of children with the...
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has launched a criminal probe of Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) Stuart Bowen on allegations that he misappropriated taxpayer money to pay for his legal defense...
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Martin Scheinin said Thursday that the destruction of CIA videotapes suggests that US interrogators may have violated international prohibitions against torture. Scheinin told reporters after the...
The Supreme Court of South Korea Thursday upheld the sentence of Michael Jang, a Korean American convicted of spying for North Korea In April, the Seoul District Court in South Korea sentenced five people...
