Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) said Sunday that existing legislation governing domestic surveillance does not need to be rewritten or updated. Appearing on CBS News' Face the Nation, Frist also said that he believed that the National Security Agency does not need to obtain a court order before engaging in domestic eavesdropping under the [...]

The French, German, and British ambassadors to the US on Sunday called for the United States to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, with French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte going so far as to call the facility "an embarrassment." The critical remarks come on the heels of a UN report alleging that some detainees have been [...]

Leading Monday's international brief, the Israeli Cabinet has agreed to impose a hefty series of sanctions against the Palestinian Authority (PA) unless the ruling party of Hamas commits to non-violence and drops its call for the destruction of Israel. Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the cabinet that Hamas' majority status in the Palestinian [...]

Former US Navy General Counsel Alberto J. Mora warned the Pentagon as early as 2002 that legal arguments advanced by Bush administration officials seeking to avoid international prohibitions against torture were wrong and could lead to the abuse of detainees. In a memo dated July 7, 2004 obtained by the New Yorker magazine and disclosed [...]

National Air Traffic Services , the UK's air traffic control provider, have reported that three CIA flights possibly involved in rendition landed at British airports and received assistance from UK air traffic control since 2001. The admission by the civil aviation body in response to parliamentary questions is said to be the first acknowledgement of [...]

English Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith has told top British military officers that British soldiers will not appear before the International Criminal Court (ICC) on war crimes charges. The statement, the government's first assertion that British troops will not be forced to stand trial in front of the new Hague-based international criminal tribunal, comes amidst new allegations [...]

Saddam Hussein could be put to death by hanging within months if he's convicted in his first trial, according to the chief prosecutor for the Iraqi High Criminal Court, formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal . In an interview reported in the London Sunday Times, Ja'afar Moussawi said that a new Iraqi law mandates that death [...]

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi , facing possible indictment for allegedly bribing his former lawyer to give false testimony in two criminal cases, told supporters at a campaign rally in Verona Saturday that the case against him is "…without proof, completely baseless, which however has become a media and political fact," according to the Italian [...]

Influential radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has parted ways with his partners in the biggest Iraqi parliamentary bloc by rejecting the federal system described in the new Iraqi constitution . Al-Sadr told Aljazeera on Saturday, "If there is a democratic government in Iraq, nobody has the right to call for the establishment of federalism [...]

A Saturday protest by Nigerian Muslims in the northeastern city of Maiduguru over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad led to sectarian violence in which at least 15 people were killed, 15 Christian churches were burned, and dozens arrested before rioters were stopped by police. The death toll was the highest in any [...]