Iraqi officials have suspended business with the Australia Wheat Board (AWB) while an Australian judicial inquiry investigates allegations that AWB paid bribes of up to $300 million to the former government of Saddam Hussein...

Presidents Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia and Xanana Gusmao of East Timor will meet this week to discuss a report alleging widespread human rights violations during Indonesia's 24-year occupation of East Timor. The meeting, originally...

UK Chancellor Gordon Brown , widely expected to succeed Tony Blair as British Prime Minister before the next election if not sooner, delivered a major policy address Monday calling for a toughening-up of the...

The trial of former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma for rape began in Johannesburg Monday, though proceedings were cut short when presiding Judge Bernard Ngoepe stepped down from the case. The defense had argued that Ngoepe's...

Five United Nations rights experts have concluded that detainees being held at the US prison base in Guantanamo Bay have been subjected to physical and mental abuse amounting to torture in some cases, according...

The top US Central Intelligence Agency counter-terrorism official was fired last week because he expressed opposition to CIA rendition practices in sending al Qaeda suspects to secret prisons for interrogation, according to intelligence sources...

Leading Monday's international brief, the Nepal Supreme Court has handed down an historic decision holding that the Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC) , created by King Gyanendra following his dismissal of...

Saddam Hussein returned to court in Baghdad Monday, though he claimed in several outbursts that his appearance was forced. The former Iraqi dictator called the court trying him for crimes against humanity a "game" because it...

Lawyers representing a group of hurricane victims in New Orleans have asked a US federal judge to grant a temporary restraining order preventing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from evicting 12,000 families still left homeless from...

Islamic leaders in Britain have demanded a speedy prosecution of British soldiers shown beating young Iraqi detainees and defiling an Iraqi corpse in video images that were published in the tabloid...