Israeli Attorney General Meni Mazuz notified lawyers for Israeli President Moshe Katsav that a second rape charge may be added to Katsav's indictment for alleged sex crimes. The additional charges were made by the...

US President George W. Bush again defended US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales over his role in the firings of federal prosecutors in a press conference Saturday, saying that Gonzales has his...

Arab residents of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk expressed anger Sunday at the government's plan to encourage relocation of the city's Arab population. Most of the city's current residents were forced to move to the...

A Russian law banning all foreigners from the country's retail industry took effect Sunday. The new law, passed by the Russian assembly last year, is expected to affect tens of thousands of workers from the former Soviet Republics. The...

A federal district judge in San Francisco has ruled that the US Forest Service violated environmental laws when it promulgated a 2005 regulation governing the management of national forests. On motions for summary judgment...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) claimed Saturday that the US, Kenya, and Ethiopia are cooperating with the transitional government of Somalia to secretly detain people who have fled the recent conflict there. HRW deputy Africa director Georgette...

The FBI released a 464-page report Friday containing details from the autopsy of Emmett Till . Till was fourteen when he was abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Mississippi in August 1955...

An Iranian ambassador has said his country could put 15 detained British military personnel on trial for violating international law, according to reports in state media Saturday. Iran detained eight British Royal Navy sailors and seven Royal...

Iraqi Justice Minister Hashim Abderrahman al-Shebli told AP Saturday that he had submitted his resignation to the Cabinet Thursday, citing internal "differences" within the coalition government. Al-Shebli did not specify the particular "differences" that led to his decision to...

A US military commission at Guantanamo Bay recommended sentencing Australian detainee David Hicks to seven years in prison late Friday but all but nine months of that were effectively suspended by a military...