A Turkish appeals court on Friday ordered Mehmet Ali Agca , the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, to return to prison and Agca was subsequently taken into custody in Istanbul. Agca was...

Japanese Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party leader Junichiro Koizumi pledged to introduce a bill to reform the 1947 Imperial Household Law , allowing women to ascend to the country's imperial throne during his annual...

Former Serb commander Dragan Vasiljkovic was arrested in Australia Thursday at the request of the Croatian government, who want to prosecute Vasiljkovic for war crimes committed during Croatia's 1991-1995 independence war. Vasiljkovic, now a...

Lawyers across the country filed motions Thursday asking immigration judges to reconsider sending illegal immigrants back to Haiti. The motions are in response to the decision of the Department of Homeland Security to continue deporting Haitian immigrants,...

A group of retired military leaders have sent a letter to President Bush seeking clarification on the president's plans to enforce a recently passed ban on the use of torture against terror detainees. Last month,...

The father of John Walker Lindh , the American caught fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, called on President Bush Thursday to grant his son clemency and commute his 20 year sentence in...

US Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday defended the Bush administration's authorization of domestic surveillance in the weeks following Sept. 11, saying the program is a crucial tool in monitoring terrorist organizations. In a...

The Shiite United Iraqi Alliance won 128 of 275 seats in the Iraqi parliament, the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) said Friday when it released final results from the December 15 parliamentary...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a motion in federal court seeking to compel Internet search giant Google to comply with a subpoena issued last summer. The subpoena requests that Google...

Legal Authorities Supporting the Activities of the National Security Agency Described by the President, US Department of Justice, January 19, 2006 [white paper saying that the NSA activities are supported by the president's position as Commander in Chief and congressional...