Iraqi Shiite leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim , head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq , said Monday that he would like the amnesty provision of the proposed national reconciliation plan [text and press...

A Chinese Cabinet official said Monday that a draft law imposing fines on media organizations for covering sudden emergencies without approval from the local government would also apply to international news organizations. It is not clear, however,...

A US military lawyer for David Hicks said the US government cannot legally prosecute the Australian-born Guantanamo detainee again because a trial would constitute double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution. The...

Former Chadian president Hissene Habre will face trial in Senegal on charges that he committed torture, mass killings, and other abuses in the 1980s, leaders of the African Union decided at an...

Federal prosecutors in Charlotte charged former US Army soldier Steven Green with murder and rape Monday in connection with the death of an Iraqi woman and three family members in Mahmudiya in March. US Army Maj. Gen. James Thurman,...

Bolivian President Evo Morales may be forced to compromise with a special assembly that will rewrite the country's constitution after Morales' Movement Toward Socialism Party (MAS) apparently failed to...

Rear Admiral Harry Harris , commander of the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay , said in remarks published Sunday that as many as 75 percent of Guantanamo inmates no longer provide the US with useful...

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said Sunday that some two dozen members of the Palestinian cabinet and legislature from the governing Hamas faction detained by Israeli forces in West Bank raids last week will...

Seventeen Cambodian judges and 10 others from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Japan, Poland, Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, and the US who will serve on the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal were sworn in Monday in...

Six Frenchmen who were released from the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay went on trial Monday in Paris, where they stand accused of attending combat training at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan. France freed...