Former media mogul Conrad Black is expected Tuesday to appeal an Ontario court's ruling that would allow his Canadian-based holding company Ravelston Corporation to face criminal fraud charges in the United States. Black's lawyers maintain that US...

Salem Chalabi, former head of the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) that will open the trial of Saddam Hussein next week, has warned that a proposed bill to amend the tribunal's practices...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Tuesday in several cases where the Court will consider the extent of the federal government's power to regulate the development of wetlands. The Court agreed to hear three separate cases, all...

Afghanistan's defense ministry said Monday that the country is preparing prison facilities to hold detainees who are expected to be transferred from the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay . Defense ministry spokesman General Mohammad Zahir Azimi...

The United Nations is expecting a large turn-out for Saturday's Iraqi constitution referendum , including in areas dominated by Sunni Arabs who have voiced opposition to the charter. The UN's top global election...

Indonesia moved the three masterminds behind the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings to a higher security jail Tuesday to wait out their time on death row, just one day before the third anniversary of the...

Abimael Guzman , founder of Peru's Shining Path guerilla movement, told a Peruvian court Monday that he is not a terrorist, and instead labeled himself a "revolutionary combatant." Guzman is facing a retrial on...

Indonesian police said Tuesday that they have arrested a man identified simply as "Hasan" in connection with the October 1 Bali bombings , the first arrest in the case. Hasan shared a rented house in Bali with the...

The Texas State Library and Archives Commission made public Monday over 2,000 pages of official correspondence and personal notes from US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers . The documents, which cover 1995 to...

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Sami-al-Leithy , an Egyptian national transferred to Egyptian custody earlier this month , has told Egyptian television that he was tortured by guards at the US military camp. Leithy,...