Several Chinese companies have reportedly donated more than $315,000 to help pay for lawsuits against the Japanese government for war crimes allegedly committed by Japanese troops during their occupation of part of China during World War II....

The US Supreme Court refused Monday to entertain a second appeal by convicted murderer Clarence Hill in which his lawyers argued that Florida's system of death by lethal injection amounted to a cruel and...

US military judge Lt. Col. Paul McConnell Monday delayed the start of a court-martial trial for an army dog handler accused in an Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. The March 8 trial date for Sgt. Santos Cardona has been...

Prisoners in Kabul's Policharki Prison who rioted over the weekend agreed Monday to temporarily end their disturbance and allow injured inmates to be removed for medical care, according to the chief negotiator for...

A federal judge blocked the Department of Defense Monday from enacting a merit pay system for its government employees. US District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said the proposed National Security Personnel System [official...

Mexico's "scorched-earth" campaign in the 1960s and 1970s resulted in crimes against humanity, including genocide, torture, executions and disappearances, according to a draft report made public by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. The...

In a letter sent to President Bush Monday, 17 Democrats from the US House of Representatives called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate allegations that the National Security Agency conducted warrantless surveillance of US citizens...

Six law professors at Cambridge University have warned that an innocuous-sounding bill now going through Parliament would give UK government ministers the power to abolish jury trials, place citizens under house arrest, and rewrite the law on nationality and...

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has agreed to meet with opposition leaders to discuss constitutional reforms, after the parties threatened to boycott the April elections. Thaksin dissolved Parliament on February 24 in response to street...

A Serbian who may prove to be a key witness in the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested in Madrid for the murder of a human rights leader in Kosovo, Spanish...