The US will not attend a scheduled meeting in Dublin to draft a legally binding ban on cluster bombs in May, US State Department officials told reporters Friday. The US will instead...

Sending British soldiers on patrol or into combat with inadequate equipment could be a violation of their human rights, the High Court of Justice ruled in London Friday. The British Ministry of Defence had argued that the...

South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that evidence obtained through torture is inadmissible in court, even when it is found to be reliable and vital for conviction. In doing so, the court overturned the convictions...

Turkey must speed up political and social reforms to meet the criteria for accession into the European Union , European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said in a speech before the Turkish parliament...

Police in Zimbabwe Friday banned all political demonstrations as tension continued to mount after the country's contested March 29th presidential election . Independent observers say that Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) candidate Morgan Tsvangirai won more...

Pakistani lawmakers introduced a bill Friday that would lift media restrictions imposed by President Pervez Musharraf after his declaration of emergency rule last November. The bill seeks to remove prohibitions on live broadcasts as...

US Attorney General Michael Mukasey Thursday disavowed a 2001 memo advising the Bush administration that Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures did not apply to "domestic military operations." Appearing before the Senate...

The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Washington state constitution does not provide a right for prison inmates to starve themselves to death. Convicted arsonist Charles R. McNabb sued the Washington State Department of...

Sudanese Guantanamo Bay detainee Ibrahim al-Qosi said at a pre-trial hearing Thursday that he plans to boycott his upcoming military commission trial, becoming the third Guantanamo Bay detainee to announce boycott plans....

A former top Chinese Communist Party official was convicted Friday of corruption and was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Chen Liangyu was found guilty of accepting bribes and abuse of power, making Chen the highest...