The ruling Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) both filed legal challenges to the parliamentary results of Zimbabwe's March 29 general election Wednesday. ZANU-PF filed...

Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez , a former US commanding general in Iraq, said in a new book published Tuesday that there is "irrefutable evidence" that the US military tortured and killed detainees in Afghanistan at the end of...

US President George W. Bush submitted three new nominations for the Federal Elections Commissions (FEC) to the Senate Tuesday in an effort to break a deadlock which has left the FEC without a quorum to...

Lawyers for Guantanamo detainees claim that the US government of has eavesdropped on conversations with their clients , according to court papers filed Tuesday by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) . The filing came as...

Kenyan Chief Prosecutor Keriako Tobiko Tuesday asked the country's high court to freeze the assets of wealthy Hutu businessman and Rwandan war crimes suspect Felicien Kabuga . Kabuga is accused of funding Rwandan militias that...

Agents from the White House Office of Personnel Management and the FBI Tuesday searched the home and office of US Office of Special Counsel (OSC) head Scott J. Bloch as part of an investigation into...

Georgia Tuesday evening carried out the first execution in the United States since the US Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Kentucky's lethal injection protocol and ended a de facto national moratorium on the death penalty. Both...

Six Guantanamo Bay detainees charged in connection with the Sept.11, 2001 terrorist attacks will probably not be put on trial by the US military before the end of the Bush administration...

Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed formal charges against former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia , officials said Tuesday. Zia and 10 other officials are accused of corruption and abuse of power for an alleged...

A British resident still detained at Guantanamo Bay filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the UK government alleging that the UK Foreign Office has refused to turn over evidence necessary to his defense before a US military...