Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced Friday, while acknowledging National Missing Children's Day , that a new federal website would provide state-by-state information on known sex offenders within two months. The website, with voluntary participation by...

Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich vetoed a bill Friday that would have allowed rights for gay partners who registered with the state, denouncing it as a threat to traditional marriage. Among the rights the bill would have granted...

A US military spokesman, responding to a New York Times article detailing the deaths of two detainees and other abuses, said Friday that mistreatment of detainees in Afghanistan by US personnel will not be tolerated. A White House spokesman...

The French peacekeeping force in Ivory Coast has opened an investigation into allegations that four of its soldiers sexually abused a young girl in the rebel-controlled north. These are the first allegations of sexual abuse to be made against...

US President George W. Bush Friday threatened to veto any legislation that would ease restrictions on federally funded stem cell research . President Bush remarked that he was "a strong supporter of adult stem cell...

Government officials along with survivors paid respects Friday to the victims of the Khmer Rouge "killing fields" during the annual "Day of Anger." Last month the United Nations announced its support for genocide tribunals in Cambodia [press...

The state-run Ethiopia News Agency reported Friday that re-elections will be held Sunday in six polling stations where voting irregularities were found to have occurred. Further charges have been made by both the ruling party and opposition parties...

Former Rwandan mayor Laurent Semanza saw his appeal before the appeals panel of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda dismissed Friday and his prison sentence extended from 25 to 35 years. Semanza, once mayor of Bicumbi...

Previously undisclosed US military documents show ongoing Iraqi mistreatment of prisoners, including photos of bruised and beaten detainees, which US officials fear may damage the image of the new security forces in the eyes of the Iraqi public. The...

Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov told UN Secretary General Kofi Annan Thursday that he did not want an immediate probe conducted by UN human rights officials into recent violence in the eastern part of Uzbekistan. UN High Commissioner...