Human rights group Amnesty International USA on Friday accused the US of insufficiently responding to the Gaza crisis in a letter sent to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice . The letter claimed...

Pakistan on Friday said a bilateral extradition treaty would be required if it were to transfer Mumbai terror attack suspects to India. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said in a television interview that no...

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...