Chile's high court voted 5-0 Monday to uphold a lower court decision detaining former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori as he fights extradition to Peru. He will remain in custody until Peru requests...

AP is reporting that "dirty bomb" suspect Jose Padilla has been indicted on criminal charges. Padilla has been in US custody for over three years on allegations that he was involved in an al Qaeda plot...

Former Ecuador President Lucio Gutierrez filed a criminal complaint with the country's attorney general Monday seeking sedition and conspiracy charges against his successor, former Vice President Alfredo Palacio , for allegedly overthrowing...

A federal lawsuit was filed against McLennan County, Texas Monday by three war protestors claiming that new county ordinances prohibiting roadside parking and camping interferes with their ability to gather outside President Bush's Crawford ranch. Plaintiffs Richard...

French Ambassador to the US Jean-David Levitte said Monday that France was "back to normal" following three weeks of rioting and he denied that religion played a role in the violence, which was prevalent in...

A government panel agreed Monday that Japan's succession law should be changed to allow the first-born child, irrespective of gender, the right to ascend to the throne, which would for the first time allow female members of the royal...

French Judge Brigitte Raynaud is in Rwanda investigating accusations that Paris helped a former Hutu government massacre of Tutsis during the 1994 genocide , French Ambassador Dominique Decherf said Tuesday....

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Kenya's anti-draft constitution Orange Movement has gained an insurmountable lead according to the Electoral Commission of Kenya following Monday's national referendum on the proposed draft Constitution . The Electoral Commission released...

German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, head of a UN investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri returned to Lebanon Tuesday as he prepares to close the investigation and prepare a final...

EU states have said they plan to write a joint letter to the US government seeking clarification about whether the US has been running illegal covert prisons in the EU as part of its war on terror....