Leading Wednesday's international brief, a bill passed by the out-going Fatah party in the Palestinian Authority which granted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas greater presidential powers, including the power to set up a constitutional court staffed...

Appellate judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Wednesday reduced the sentence of former Bosnian Serb army commander Momir Nikolic to 20 years, saying the lower chamber erred...

Majority Republicans on the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence agreed Tuesday to establish a new seven-member subcommittee to oversee surveillance methods utilized by President George W. Bush's domestic spying program , but...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan questioned the legality of the "arbitrary detention" of thousands of Iraqis by Coalition and Iraqi forces in his latest periodic report to the UN Security Council on the situation in Iraq released...

UK Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells has warned that operations at the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba threaten democracy and has urged the closing of the facility in order to restore...

USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005, Congress of the United States, March 2, 2006 . Read the full text...

Prepared Remarks by US Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at the International Institute for Strategic Studies London, England, March 7, 2006 . Read the full text...

Case of Evans v. The United Kingdom, European Court of Human Rights, March 7, 2006 . Read the full text of the...

In re Iraq and Afghanistan Detainees Litigation, Arkan Mohammed Ali, et al., v. Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense of the United States of America, Defendant's and the United States' Motion to Dismiss, March 6, 2006 [motion to dismiss a...

A new report released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center estimates that the total number of illegal immigrants in the US has risen to some 12 million, despite US government attempts to crack down on inflow....