New legal documents filed by convicted spy Jonathan Pollard include allegations that Pollard has been tortured during his US imprisonment. Pollard was arrested in 1985 and was convicted of spying for Israel while he was a civilian...

The trial of two Rwandan men accused of war crimes during the 1994 Rwandan genocide begins Monday in Brussels. Half-brothers Etienne Nzabonimana and Samuel Ndashyikirwa are accused of helping the Hutu militia and are charged under Belgium's...

A week after Nepal's King Gyanendra lifted a state of emergency , the country's seven political parties have joined together to present a common agenda that demands a return to democracy and constitutional reforms...

Egypt's upper house of parliament Sunday approved an amendment to the Egyptian Constitution setting regulations for Egypt's first multi-candidate presidential election despite fear in some quarters that the guidelines would exclude serious contenders from running. Egyptians have typically...

The families of ten British soldiers killed in Iraq announced Sunday that they are filing suit against Prime Minister Tony Blair's government in the International Criminal Court for war crimes. Their group, Military Families Against the War,...

Senator Richard Lugar , chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , said Sunday that he expects a party-line vote this week to approve the controversial nomination of John Bolton as US ambassador to the...

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi headed to Moscow Sunday to attend ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, despite the absence of a peace treaty formally ending World War II hostilities between...

Peter W. Rodino Jr. , the former Democratic congressman who lead the House impeachment investigation of President Nixon died Saturday at the age of 95. Rodino was chairman of the House Judiciary Committee when it held impeachment hearings...

US District Judge Michael Moore has ruled that federal agents who seized Elian Gonzalez during a 2000 raid did not use excessive force by firing tear gas during the raid. In his opinion , issued Friday,...

Former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev may soon face new charges over their handling of the oil company's affairs, according to a report Friday in the Russian newspaper Izvestia. Russian...