US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff suggested Sunday that the US could benefit from revised anti-terror laws that allow for increased electronic surveillance of terror suspects. Chertoff, who also suggested that the US...

Delegates from around the world will meet Monday in New York in a bid to resolve differences left after a drafting session earlier this year to frame a 33-article draft convention designed to protect the rights...

Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks may serve up to seven more years in US military custody before facing trial under a new military tribunal system, his military lawyer Major Michael Mori said...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the US to deny a request from Israel to provide cluster munitions for use against targets in Lebanon. HRW wrote a letter to National Security Advisor...

Ali al-Shemri, head of Iraq's Ministry of Health , alleged Sunday that US troops wrongfully detained five members of his personal security force and stole their salaries during an early morning raid of the Health Ministry Building. An...

The Australian government's proposed Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill that would require asylum seekers arriving by boat to be processed at offshore camps faces a close vote in the Senate this week, Australian media...

Federal prosecutors have asked US District Court Judge Sim Lake to order former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling to pay $182.2 million for his part in the conspiracy with Kenneth Lay [Houston Chronicle...

The speaker of Iran's parliament indicated Sunday that the country would pull out of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) if what he called its "inalienable rights" to uranium enrichment were taken away. Gholam-Ali Hadad-Adel ...

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has told the parents of two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah in a July 12 raid that Israel is willing to negotiate with Hezbollah for their release, Haaretz newspaper reported Sunday. Olmert...

Public Citizen v. Clerk, United States District Court for the District of Columbia; United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge John D. Bates, August 11, 2006 [dismissing a lawsuit arguing that a $39 billion deficit-reduction bill passed...