Leading Friday's international brief, UN officials are now admitting that membership of the Security Council is unlikely to change anytime soon, despite months of negotiation and calls for changes to the body's composition. UN Secretary General Kofi...

Federal prosecutors have charged an official of St. Tammany Parish with accepting kickbacks to arrange a debris-removal contract as part of the Hurricane Katrina cleanup. St. Tammany Parish Council member Joseph Impastato...

Former French UN ambassador Jean-Bernard Merimee has admitted to a French judge that he accepted $156,000 in connection with the now-defunct UN Oil-for-Food program . Merimee received the money by way of oil...

Kizza Besigye , the president of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change party, appeared in a military court in Uganda on Friday along with 18 others on charges of treason . Besigye is the...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Friday called for an international investigation into present conditions in Iraqi jails after 173 malnourished, beaten and possibly tortured detainees were found in a...

A Bosnian Serb court Thursday handed down its first war crimes ruling since the end of the Bosnian war in 1995 by sentencing three former Serb police officers to up to 20 years in prison for the deaths of...

Federal immigration officials Thursday raided a Wal-Mart distribution center construction site in Pennsylvania and arrested over 120 workers for immigration violations. Agents from the US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...

United Nations human rights representatives Friday rejected an offer to visit the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay after US officials formally refused their demand for unconditional access to the detainees earlier...

Legislation to reauthorize the USA Patriot Act , many provisions of which are due to expire at the end of the year if not renewed, stalled Thursday as members of the bill's negotiating committee worked...

US v. Conrad M. Black et al, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois [federal criminal fraud indictment against financier Conrad Black and three other executives at Hollinger International related to the $2.1 billion sale of several...