A spokesman for British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday that US President George W. Bush has offered Blair a brief apology for apparent US failure to follow proper UK aviation safety procedures in a recent transshipment of American...

Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 40 of the Covenant, UN Human Rights Committee, July 28, 2006 [finding among other things that to comply with its obligations under the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights that...

The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday blocked the US Department of Justice from reviewing the contents of files seized from the congressional office of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) until Jefferson has an opportunity...

A federal appeals court Friday affirmed the securities fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence handed down for former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers . Ebbers appealed the 2005 district court determinations, saying...

The Spanish government on Friday unveiled the anticipated "Law for the Recovery of the Historical Memory," legislation aimed at healing the wounds of Gen. Francisco Franco's authoritarian regime that ruled Spain from 1939...

Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika announced Friday that a criminal investigation has been opened into the June abduction and murder of four Russian embassy employees in Iraq. In a statement, the Prosecutor General's office said...

A Turkish court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit seeking compensation from novelist Orhan Pamuk , who was sued by six nationalists after he made allegedly unfavorable remarks to a Swiss magazine about Turkey's stance on...

A US Army soldier has said that the deaths of three Iraqi detainees in Samarra on May 9 were deliberate murders covered-up by his squad of the Third Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division , according...

Some leftist Italian lawmakers belonging to the Union Coalition of Italian prime minister Romano Prodi have expressed dissatisfaction with a controversial sentence-reduction bill that has been extended to include prisoners convicted of fraud and other...

Lawyers for the three men sentenced to death for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings Friday threatened to sue the Indonesia attorney general's office if their clients' executions, currently scheduled for mid-August , are carried out before...