The Iraqi legislature's failure to pass an oil law , rather than the security situation in the country, is preventing international oil corporations from investing in Iraq, US Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt said Tuesday....

A Guantanamo Bay detainee survived a self-inflicted injury last month when he cut open his throat using a sharpened fingernail during his daily shower, Navy Cmdr. Andrew Haynes said Tuesday. The detainee received stitches after losing...

Decision on Appeal against Provisional Detention Order of Kaing Guek Eav alias "Duch", Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Pre-Trial Chamber, December 3, 2007 [denying bail to former Khmer Rouge official Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, for...

Pakistani police acting at the direction of what one official called "higher ups" arrested two American human rights activists in Lahore Tuesday, according to AP. Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry are members of the US-based human rights...

The sentencing of convicted terrorism conspirator Jose Padilla will be delayed until January, according to US federal court officials cited by AP Tuesday. Sentencing hearings that were due to begin this week were rescheduled due to...

A Bangladesh court sentenced four university professors Tuesday for participating in anti-government student protests that took place in August. Police inspector Mahbub Siddiqui told AFP that the academics were found guilty of breaking emergency laws ...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Snyder v. Louisiana , 06-10119, where it considered whether a prosecutor improperly excluded all black potential jurors from serving on...

Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett said Tuesday that Pennsylvania and several other states will file lawsuits against tobacco company RJ Reynolds for violating an agreement not to use cartoon characters to advertise tobacco products. A...

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Martin Scheinin will attend military commission hearings at Guantanamo Bay beginning Wednesday, according to a statement by Scheinin on Tuesday. Scheinin said that the...

Twenty-six ethnic Indians have been charged with attempted murder in connection with anti-discrimination demonstrations in Malaysia last month, a lawyer for the defendants said Tuesday. All 26 suspects pleaded not guilty to charges of...