Hundreds of Serbs took control of a UN courthouse in the northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica Friday in an apparent protest against Kosovo's recent declaration of independence from Serbia. The group initially demanded a deal with...

The Norwegian government brought forward a draft law Friday that would grant same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples, replacing a 1993 law which merely granted gay couples the right to enter into civil unions. The...

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom vetoed a bill Friday that would have restored the country's death penalty . Decree 06-2008 would also have given Colom, sworn into office just last month...

United States of America v. Salim Ahmed Hamdan, United States Military Commission, March 14, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion...

US military judge Col. Peter Brownback on Friday ruled that interrogation materials, including names of interrogators, relevant to the case of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr must be turned over to Khadr's defense team. Earlier...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Friday remanded to district court a bid by Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Belbacha to obtain a preliminary injunction barring his transfer back to his...

A former CIA "ghost detainee" detailed torture and abuse by agency interrogators at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and a secret CIA facility in Afghanistan in an Amnesty International (AI) report ...

A controversial bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Security Act narrowly passed the US House of Representatives Friday in the face of a White House threat to veto it. By 213-197 House Democrats pushed...

A new executive order weakens much of the authority of the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) , the independent committee of private citizens which since 1976 has been responsible for reporting illegal US intelligence activities to both the...

UK Home Office minister Tony McNulty told members of Parliament in a written statement to the House of Commons Thursday that control orders limiting movement and restricting the rights of uncharged individuals are...