The Swiss Federal Prosecutor's office announced Friday that searches conducted in Switzerland on February 22 resulted in the arrests of three individuals accused of running Islamic websites that allowed Internet users to view images of...

The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced Friday that the Sino-US Joint Liaison Group (JLG) has signed a joint agreement at the conclusion of a two-day meeting of US and Chinese...

A military tribunal in Osnabrueck, Germany has sentenced three British soldiers involved in the May 2003 abuse of Iraqi detainees at Camp Bread Basket, outside Basra. Cpl. Daniel Kenyon was sentenced to 18 months in...

Pinellas Circuit Court Judge George Greer ruled Friday to extend the stay on the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube for three more weeks. Greer made his decision after Schiavo's parents, who oppose the removal of the tube, asked...

US District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled Friday that two lawsuits against the Federal Election Commission should be combinced, calling their claims "virtually identical." The 2004 Bush campaign and Reps. Christopher Shays, R-Conn. and Marty Meehan,...

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a statement Friday that an independent Commission of Experts would be appointed to access progress made in Timor-Leste (East Timor) and Indonesia in adjudicating human rights violations that occurred in 1999 when...

An auditing commission appointed by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops reported Friday that the past year has produced 1,092 new allegations of sexual abuse against at least 756 Catholic clergymen. The disclosure of figures came in the national...

British Army Corporal Daniel Kenyon denied all allegations of his involvement in the abuse and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners during testimony at a court martial at a British military base in Germany Friday. Overwhelmed with emotion, Kenyon told...

A lawsuit seeking the release of over 500 unnamed terror suspects detained by the US government at Guantanamo Bay has been launched by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights . The lawsuit, which joins...

The appeals division of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ruled Friday that the trial chamber of the same court had erred in its 2003 sentencing of former Bosnian Serb detention camp commander Dragan Nikolic...