The US Central Intelligence Agency will turn over information to Congress regarding the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects , Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), chairman of the House Select Intelligence Committee, said Wednesday....

The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Wednesday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against private security contractor Blackwater USA ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Wednesday rejected California's request for a waiver that would have allowed it and 16 other states following its lead to impose stricter greenhouse gas emissions standards on cars and...

Fair elections in Pakistan are impossible as long as the judiciary remains beholden to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and scores of lawyers, activists and government critics remain in detention, Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy...

Three UK residents released Wednesday from Guantanamo Bay were detained by UK authorities when they arrived in the UK later in the day. Libyan Omar Deghayes and Algerian Abdennour Sameur were arrested and Jordanian Jamil el...

A French court Wednesday sentenced five Frenchmen released from the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay to one year in prison for "criminal association with a terrorist enterprise" after a retrial. A sixth defendant was acquitted....

A Spanish anti-terrorism court Wednesday convicted 47 Basque separatists of either leading, being a member of, or collaborating with a "terrorist organization," and sentenced each to between 2 and 20 years in prison. The 47 were members of various...

A judge on the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky ruled Tuesday that former Pfc. Steven D. Green will stand trial on April 13, 2009, for his role in the March...

The Indonesian Supreme Court has rejected the final appeal of three men sentenced to death for their roles in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings , an Indonesian prosecutor said Wednesday. The court's decision has not yet been formally...

A court in Argentina on Tuesday convicted eight formal officials for human rights abuses committed during the 1976-83 Dirty War . The seven former army officers and a former police official were tried in connection with the kidnapping,...