Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on Wednesday said treason charges would be leveled against the leaders of violent protests that left 42 dead following a confrontation with police last week. Meles called the protests an "Orange...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has called for global cooperation in the arrest of five members of Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) , during a report Tuesday...
The US Senate on has rejected a proposal to create an independent commission patterned after the Sept. 11 Commission to investigate US treatment of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. With a 55-43 party-line...
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , the indicted former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, has established a fund to help pay for his defense against criminal charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in the investigation...
Syria has invited German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, head of a UN investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , to visit Damascus to discuss cooperation between UN investigators and the Syrian...
A classified Central Intelligence Agency report issued in 2004 questioned whether certain interrogation tactics approved by the agency for use against terrorism suspects would violate the UN Convention Against Torture , current and former intelligence officials have...
The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted Resolution 1637 , extending the mandate of the 180,000-strong multinational force in Iraq for another year. The US-led force was originally authorized in May...
Defense lawyers in the trial of Saddam Hussein on Wednesday officially severed contact with the Iraqi Special Tribunal in response to the Tuesday murder of defense team member Adil al-Zubeidi ....
The Australian government is pushing forward with controversial anti-terror proposals despite criticism that arrests made earlier this week during a counter-terrorism swoop indicate the legislation is unnecessary. Although Parliament hastily approved an amendment...
The BBC is reporting that the UK government of Prime Minister Tony Blair has lost a House of Commons vote on a key provision of its proposed Terrorism Bill that would have authorized detention of...