US military judge Navy Capt. Keith Allred has ruled that lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan can send written questions to Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other alleged high-level al Qaeda...

East Timor's attorney general said Friday that 12 arrest warrants have been issued for suspects in this week's attacks against East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao , but did not release the names...

Any unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo from Serbia will be "invalid and void," Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic said Thursday, hours before the UN Security Council was scheduled...

US President George W. Bush said in a BBC interview Thursday that he will veto an intelligence funding bill that would restrict CIA interrogators to using only interrogation techniques explicitly authorized by the...

The European Commission plans to introduce a proposal to extend copyright protection for music performers from 50 to 95 years, Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy announced Thursday. The proposal will ensure greater protections...

The Bush administration filed a petition for certiorari with the US Supreme Court Thursday in the case of Gates v. Bismullah, seeking to limit the information it must provide to courts in...

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday upheld an earlier ruling by a federal district court to vacate the conviction of former Enron CFO...

Memorandum Order: Hani Saleh Rashid Abdullah et al., v. George W. Bush et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, February 14, 2008 [extending the deadline for the government to comply with an order requiring it to submit...

A Chinese land rights activist arrested for circulating a petition declaring "we want human rights, not the Olympics" will be tried next week, according to Thursday media reports. Yang Chunlin was arrested in July 2007 and charged...

Chadian President Idriss Deby Thursday declared a state of emergency throughout Chad , citing increased violence between government forces and rebels in the capital city of...