The US Justice Department told a member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee that abusive or humiliating interrogations of terror suspects ostensibly prohibited by the common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions on "outrages upon personal dignity"...

ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Saturday called on the government of Sudan to arrest and surrender two war crimes suspects wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) . In a statement noting that arrest...

Ugandan police arrested three journalists Saturday as part of an investigation into suspected sedition, according to the journalists' lawyer. The journalists worked on two articles published in the Independent magazine that were critical of the Ugandan military....

Opposition members of the Mexican Congress have ended their protest against a proposed energy reform bill backed by Mexican President Felipe Calderon , after the ruling party agreed to allow further debate on the bill. Members...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the State Secrets Protection Act , sending the legislation to the Senate floor for consideration. The legislation, approved by a 11-8 vote on Thursday, would place restrictions on...

US Army Sgt. 1st Class Trey A. Corrales was acquitted by a military jury on Friday of charges connected to the 2007 killing of an unarmed Iraqi civilian near the city of Kirkuk . Corrales was...

A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday overturned a lower court ruling dismissing an antitrust class action lawsuit against a group of banks that require credit cardholders to use arbitration...

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) was cleared of financial mismanagement in an independent audit released Friday. The review was ordered by the ECCC Project Board in...

Zimbabwean police Friday raided the offices of independent election observers and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) , arresting hundreds in an alleged crackdown on anti-government subversives. Witnesses say that police were searching for vote counting materials...

Over 3,000 prison inmates convicted of crack cocaine offenses have had their sentences reduced under an amendment to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines , according to a study released Thursday by the US Sentencing Commission ....