Poland will not join the European Charter of Fundamental Rights , instead opting for the same exemption clause that allowed the UK to reject the charter this summer, said Polish foreign minister Ana Fotyga Friday...

The government of Pakistan said Friday that it has reopened a corruption case against former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif , the same day that an anti-terrorism court ordered the arrest of his brother, Shahbaz Sharif,...

The Supreme Court of Indonesia will not consider an appeal by three men convicted and sentenced to death in the 2002 bombings of two Bali nightclubs , a judge said Friday. Lawyers for Amrozi Ghufron , Ali...

Muslim women will be allowed to wear traditional Muslim niqabs or burqas and not be required to show their faces to vote in Quebec by-elections this month, an Elections Canada spokesperson announced Thursday. The...

Assistant US Attorney General Peter D. Keisler announced his resignation as head of the US Department of Justice's Civil Division Thursday, effective September 21. During his tenure at the Justice Department, Keisler was...

The US government has begun setting up a "tent city" at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay , Cuba, where the US military plans to hold military tribunals for Guantanamo detainees, officials said...

US District Judge Harold Murphy of the Northern District of Georgia lifted a stay of the controversial Georgia voter ID law Thursday, enabling the law to go into effect during Special Elections...

The US Department of State is satisfied that France will treat former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega as a prisoner of war if extradited to France upon his release from prison [BOP materials;...

The Iraqi government named Moussa Faraj as chair of the Commission on Public Integrity (CPI) Thursday. Farag will replace Radhi al-Radhi , who has retired in light of corruption accusations brought by the Iraqi...

Doctors from 16 countries have chided the US military for its medical care of detainees at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay , Cuba in a letter Friday to the UK medical journal...