US District Judge Reggie B. Walton on Thursday rejected a motion to dismiss criminal charges against former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in connection with the leak of former...

Over one-third of documents held by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that have been removed from public access since 1999 should not have been reclassified, according to an audit conducted by...

China has not overlooked human rights abuses in its quest to find energy sources for its growing economy, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday. Spokesman Qin Gang said China emphasized peace, cooperation and...

Leading Belarusian opposition figure Alexander Milinkevich was arrested Wednesday along with other demonstrators at a rally in Minsk, according to activists. About 7,000 opposition members gathered for what is traditionally the largest rally of the...

A US Senate panel conducting an investigation into the federal response to Hurricane Katrina has concluded that the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be abolished and replaced with a new federal agency ...

Leading Thursday's international brief, Uganda's chief prosecutor Simon Byabakama Mugenyi told the High Court where opposition leader Kizza Besigye is being tried on treason charges that files detailing the intelligence gathering efforts against Besigye...

Israeli activist group Peace Now has condemned Wednesday's directive from Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ehud Omert to top security officials to block the gaps in the controversial security fence [JURIST report; IDF...

At least 600 US troops have been linked to cases of abuse , torture or killing of as many as 460 detainees at various detention facilities around the world, three human rights groups reported Wednesday. According to a...

A US military commission at Guantanamo Bay holding a pre-trial hearing in the case against Algerian detainee Sufyian Barhoumi Wednesday rejected his motion to be moved to a less restrictive detention area. Barhoumi,...

Jurors in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui head into a fourth day of deliberations Thursday after no verdict was reached Wednesday. The jurors, who have been deliberating now for 16 hours over the...