Police in China detained five parents of children who became sick after drinking melamine-tainted milk , preventing the parents from participating in a Friday news conference. One of the parents said that they had been given no...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed into law amendments to the country's penal code ending jury trials for terrorism or treason suspects and giving prosecutors broader investigative...

Australian acting prime minister Julia Gillard on Friday said it was "unlikely" that the country would accept foreign detainees released from the Guantanamo Bay military prison, but that her country was considering...

Vietnamese newspaper editors Le Hoang and Nguyen Cong Khe have been dismissed from their jobs at the Tuoi Tre and Thanh Nien newspapers after protesting the arrests of two journalists working for their...

The British government is willing to help the United States close the Guantanamo Bay military prison by accepting some released prisoners who have no previous connection to the UK, the Times reported Thursday. The paper quoted...

US Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. pressed his call for raises for federal judges in his 2008 year-end report on the federal judiciary, released Wednesday. Roberts compared the $6.8 billion allocated to the federal...

Judge Richard Leon for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday ruled that the US government could continue to hold Guantanamo Bay detainees Hisham Sliti and Moath Hamza...

A Zimbabwe magistrate ruled Wednesday that Zimbabwe Peace Project leader Jestina Mukoko and several others would have to remain in jail until their hearings before the Zimbabwe Supreme Court. Mukoko and the other activists were charged...

Judge Henry Kennedy for the US District Court for the District of Columbia  on Wednesday ruled in favor of three former US soldiers suing North Korea for alleged mistreatment they suffered...

William Thomas Massie, et al. v. The Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, US District Court for the District of Columbia, December 31, 2008 [ruling in favor of three US servicemen suing North Korea for mistreatment they suffered...