Russian police arrested dozens of demonstrating gay rights activists Sunday, including European lawmakers who wanted to present a letter to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov , who had rejected a request by gay rights activists to...

A Libyan court acquitted six foreign medics of criminal defamation Sunday. The five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor, previously convicted of knowingly infecting over 400 Libyan patients with the HIV virus and sentenced...

Yemen has agreed to receive most Yemeni detainees held at Guantanamo Bay , a senior Yemeni official told Reuters Sunday. The official said that "there are continuous talks with the Americans to hand over the Yemenis in...

Immigration Enforcement: The Rhetoric, The Reality, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, May 27, 2007 [finding that only a handful of deportations sought by US immigration authorities between 2004 and 2006 resulted from terrorism charges and that the vast majority resulted from...

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday in an op-ed published in the Sunday Times that the country has chosen to protect the civil liberties of foreign nationals over national security and therefore...

Thousands of Pakistanis rallied outside the Supreme Court of Pakistan Saturday in support of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry , who returned to the court building for the first time since being suspended...

Ukrainian political rivals President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych agreed Sunday to hold elections on September 30 in a move intended to end an escalating constitutional crisis in...

The Mexican government joined in opposition to a Mexico City abortion law legalizing abortions in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy on Friday, appointing Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora to help argue before the Supreme...

An Ontario Court of Appeal panel ruled Friday that officials making determinations under the Canadian province's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act had to weigh the public interest in the release of information...

An investigator for the UN Human Rights Council said Friday that the US has committed human rights violations in its interrogations of terror suspects and by putting questionable restrictions on immigration. In preliminary report from what will...