A report released Saturday by OpenTheGovernment.org , a private monitoring group, reveals what it described as further expansion of US government secrecy notwithstanding an increase in the number of classified government documents unsealed in 2005....

The ruling military junta in Myanmar will resume negotiations for a new constitution in the second week of October, junta spokesman Lt. Gen. Thein Sein announced Saturday. The constitutional convention was suspended on January...

A Lebanese prosecutor Saturday charged six suspects - four held in Lebanon and two in Germany - with attempted murder after they were arrested in connection with a plot to blow up trains in Germany one month...

A US Army investigator has recommended that four US soldiers face the death penalty if they are convicted on charges of murdering Iraqi detainees according to the Associated Press, which obtained a copy of the report Saturday....

EU Justice and Migration Commissioner Franco Frattini has told a Spanish newspaper that Spain contributed to a recent spate of illegal immigration between Africa and Europe by a three-month amnesty program for illegals that it...

The US military on Saturday formally relinquished control of the Abu Ghraib prison to the Iraqi government, according to an Iraqi spokesperson, after it was emptied of US detainees last week. The spokesperson said...

A federal judge on Friday issued an order directing Ohio voters to ignore threats of criminal penalties on voter registration forms and instructions , saying that new state registration rules which took effect in May after the February...

The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) on Friday appointed three experts to investigate alleged international law violations by Israel in the ongoing Middle East conflict . The three-person panel was mandated by a resolution [PDF...

Arguing that the NSA domestic surveillance program is a necessary weapon in the war on terror, the US Department of Justice Friday filed a motion in federal court asking the court to delay enforcement of an...

Incumbent Mexican president Vicente Fox was blocked from delivering the traditional state-of the nation address (known in Spanish as "El Informe") before the Mexican Congress Friday evening by protesting leftist lawmakers supporting presidential...