Rice to defend US treatment, transport of detainees as ACLU readies CIA suit
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to deliver a stern message to leaders in Europe when she heads there Monday, telling them in effect to "back off" from their criticism of US treatment of terror...
French newspaper Le Figaro reported Friday that two CIA-chartered flights made secret stops in France in 2002 and 2005 , bolstering allegations that the intelligence agency used the flights to transport Islamist terror...
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says he has written a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice , on behalf of EU nations , questioning the landing of CIA planes in nineteen airports [Guardian...
Rice to address secret CIA prison allegations on Europe trip
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Germany, Romania, and the European Union headquarters in Brussels next week in an attempt to defuse increasing pressure by the EU to respond to allegations that the...
Leaders of Bosnia's three main ethnic groups Tuesday agreed to a deal on revisions to that country's constitution that would consolidate governmental power in a strong national government. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice lauded the...
US DOJ Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald indicated in court documents Friday that his investigation into the CIA leak case will return to a grand jury. Three weeks ago, a previous grand jury indicted former...
Rice urges Syria to release jailed activists, cooperate with Hariri probe
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Saturday criticised Syria for its "arbitrary detention" of human rights activists "including Kamal Labwani and all the prisoners of conscience from the Damascus Spring" during a...
Rice says US treatment of terror suspects meets international standards
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday reaffirmed that the US meets international standards in its treatment of terror suspects, despite rising debate over the issue. Rice told an American Bar...
China, Saudi Arabia cited by US for violating religious freedom
The US Department of State on Tuesday is releasing its annual list of states considered to be serious violators of religious freedoms, opening the named states to potential sanctions. Officials say countries deemed to be "of particular concern"...
Thousands of people gathered Sunday under the dome of the Capitol Rotunda to view the closed casket of civil rights activist Rosa Parks , who died of natural causes at the age of 92 last week ....
