Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner proposed a new bill Friday that would erase libel and slander as crimes, part of a broader plan to change the way Argentina's telecommunications businesses are run....

The Obama administration is preparing to issue new guidelines for the US detention facility at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan that would allow detainees to oppose their indefinite incarceration, according to media reports Sunday....

The Czech Parliament on Friday approved a constitutional amendment that would allow the legislative body to dissolve and hold early elections. The lawmakers initially agreed to amend the country's constitution...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Friday in the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania claiming that the US Secret Service, the City of Pittsburgh, and the...

A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a lawsuit brought against private contractors by Iraqi plaintiffs alleging torture at the Abu Ghraib prison . The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia [official...

The US Supreme Court on Friday refused to grant a request by the state of California to temporarily stay a lower court order to come up with a plan to reduce the number of inmates in its...

Belgian school officials announced Friday that Muslim headscarves will be banned in about 700 schools in the Dutch-speaking northern region of Flanders. The move came after an administrative tribunal ruled Tuesday that individual schools could not...

Military lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee and alleged 9/11 co-conspirator Ramzi bin al-Shibh on Wednesday asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to declare the Military Commissions...

UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband announced Friday that the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) has referred allegations of torture by its officers to Attorney General Patricia Scotland and the Metropolitan Police [official...

US Department of Defense (DOD) general counsel Jeh Johnson said Thursday that the Obama administration remains committed to closing the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by early next year. Speaking before...