The UN Security Council approved a resolution Tuesday that encourages Secretary-General Kofi Annan to work more closely with the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) . All 15 Security Council members voted for Resolution 1699...

Zimbabwean Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa's obstruction-of-justice trial began Tuesday, eight days after the charges were tentatively dropped because of alleged intimidation of magistrates by Security Minister Didymus Mutasa. Chinamasa is accused of pressuring witnesses not to...

Former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay will withdraw his name from the Texas ballot in this fall's congressional elections, a Republican strategist told AP on Tuesday. DeLay's move comes one day after US Supreme Court...

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit declined Tuesday to review a US Department of Energy (DOE) proposal to move nuclear waste to the proposed Yucca Mountain repository by rail, finding...

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has begun a criminal investigation into possible fraud stemming from bankruptcy proceedings for Russian oil giant Yukos , according to Tuesday reports from the Itar-Tass news...

Prosecutors in Indonesia are seeking jail terms of up to 15 years for four Islamist militants suspected in the 2005 Bali bombings , which killed two dozen people. The trial of the four suspects began...

The Bush administration and the US Department of Homeland Security are considering plans to change some immigration rules for Cubans with relatives living in the United States in an effort to improve the immigration ...

Responding to a call by Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , thousands of the leftist's supporters gathered outside the Federal Electoral Tribunal Monday night to protest the court's...

Pfc. Justin Cross told a US military panel in Baghdad Tuesday that combat stress "crushed" troop morale in Mahmudiya , the area where four soldiers and one former soldier allegedly raped a 14-year old Iraqi girl and...

The National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) on Monday filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Illinois, seeking to overturn the state's Act to End Atrocities and Terrorism in the Sudan . The Illinois law bars state...