Taiwanese Foreign Minister James Huang said Friday that a national referendum on Taiwan's membership in the United Nations would proceed despite opposition from China. On Monday, the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs rejected Taiwan's fifteenth bid...
The government of Sudan said Thursday that it will appeal a US court verdict ordering it to pay $7.96 million in compensation to the families of 17 US Navy personnel killed in the 2000 al Qaeda attack on the...
There are approximately 2000 suspected terrorists living in Great Britain, up from last year's estimate of 1600, UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said Tuesday. She recommended that legislators pass new terror laws to allow police to hold...
The International Criminal Court judge overseeing the war crimes trial of Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga has expressed a desire to have the trial moved to the Democratic Republic of Congo...
A top Republican legislator Friday called for an investigation into whether CIA agents leaked classified information to Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty about secret prisons for detaining suspected terrorists. Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) [official...
The UN Security Council Friday abandoned a resolution on a UN-supervised independence plan for Kosovo out of concern that Russia would veto the proposal. Previous proposals have been rejected by Russia and...
A military jury sitting at Camp Pendleton, California, sentenced US Marine Cpl. Trent Thomas Friday to a bad-conduct discharge and reduced his rank to private for his role in the 2006 kidnapping and murder of...
US President George W. Bush Friday signed an executive order prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment during the interrogation terror suspects detained by the CIA. The White House did not reveal what specific interrogation techniques were now...
A military jury sitting at Camp Pendleton, California, Wednesday convicted US Marine Cpl. Trent Thomas for his role in the 2006 kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania . Thomas was...
US House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-MI) issued a subpoena Friday to the Republican National Committee (RNC) to turn over any emails on the US Attorney firings sent by White...
