Indian opposition leader Lal Krishna Advani criticized the Indian government Friday for repealing the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) , saying that such legislation was necessary to prevent incidents like a Tuesday attack on a religious site...

Despite a Supreme Court of Canada order that Rwandan Leon Mugesera should be deported amidst accusations of inciting genocide in his home country, Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler said Friday...

Following up on previous Pentagon denials of abuse , US Army Surgeon General Lieutenant General Kevin C. Kiley, M.D. Thursday presented a "comprehensive assessment" of actions and procedures by medical personnel at Guantanamo ...

Eighty-nine member nations of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) voted Friday to adopt recommended changes to toughen standards of the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material at a special...

Sven Jaschan, a 19-year-old German, was given a 21-month suspended sentence Friday after being convicted by a German court of computer sabotage and illegally altering data for authoring the Sasser computer worm . Jaschan escaped jail time because...

US District Judge William Stafford rejected an injunction against Florida's new parental consent abortion law Thursday. According to the judge, opponents of the state's Parental Notice of Abortion Act , which took effect June 30, failed to show they...

Attorneys for US Army Pfc. Lynndie England announced Thursday she will plead not guilty in her upcoming court-martial. The trial will reopen later this summer with the Army maintaining most of the charges from...

London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said Friday that the confirmed death toll from the Thursday bomb attacks in the British capital had risen to "at least 50" and would go up as more...

Florida State Attorney Bernie McCabe announced Thursday that he had found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing with respect to the collapse of Terri Schiavo 15 years ago. Following Schiavo's autopsy last month, Govenor Jeb...

A spokesman for NATO said Thursday that multinational stabilization forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina had arrested Aleksandar Karadzic, son of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic who is sought for genocide charges in the July 1995 massacre...