The Turkish Grand National Assembly broadened the country's anti-terror laws Thursday by adopting new legislation that delays a suspect's guaranteed access to a lawyer for the first 24 hours of detention and expands...

The French Senate and National Assembly gave final approval Friday to the so-called "iTunes" copyright legislation , meaning the bill will soon become law assuming the failure of a constitutional challenge filed last week by the...

The US House of Representatives voted 232-187 Thursday to approve the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act , which "provide for exploration, development, and production activities for mineral resources on the Outer Continental Shelf ."...

Former East Timor Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri , who resigned on Monday , on Friday refused to respond to a prosecutor's summons to appear for questioning in connection with allegations that he organized and armed a private...

The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples , a document which asserts that indigenous peoples worldwide should have the right to restitution...

Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Friday that he wants Australian-born terror suspect David Hicks to be tried in American courts even after the US Supreme Court on Thursday struck down military...

Ta Mok , the former military chief of the Khmer Rouge communist movement in Cambodia who was indicted on crimes against humanity charges in 1999 and has been in detention ...

China has approved stiffer penalties for people responsible for industrial accidents and white collar crimes, state media said on Friday. The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) increased the maximum jail sentence from...

Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy on Thursday were convicted of federal bribery and fraud charges . Siegelman was convicted on...

Lawyers for Omar Khadr , the Canadian citizen who is detained at Guantanamo Bay and charged with killing a US Special Forces soldier in Afghanistan, said Thursday they will seek his extradition to Canada....