Students at 59 of France's 84 universities went on strike Tuesday, occupying and blockading about 50 of them in protest against a new law proposed by the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin...

Khalid el-Masri , a German national allegedly kidnapped in Macedonia in 2003, held by the CIA in Afghanistan and finally released in 2004 and dumped in Albania, testified Monday before a European Parliament committee investigating...

The Texas Third Court of Appeals Monday threw out more than 30 subpoenas issued by Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle , who is investigating the political fundraising activities of former US House Majority Leader Rep....

Defense lawyers in the Enron fraud trial Monday finished their cross-examination of former Chief Financial Officer and lead government witness Andrew Fastow , bringing to a conclusion his four-day stint on the...

The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Monday against the US Department of Defense seeking the release of records and identities of the more than 750 detainees held at Guantanamo Bay since 2001,...

Canada, the European Union, and several key supporters of a proposed UN Human Rights Council are urging the United States to accept a compromise that would allow approval of a draft UN General Assembly resolution ...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, the UN Security Council has expressed its approval of the African Union decision to extend the AU peacekeeping force mandate for Darfur by six...

Zimbabwe police Monday denied torture allegations by suspects arrested and charged with plotting to overthrow the government and assassinate Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe . Senior Assistant Commissioner Ronald Muderedzwa said only 11 people have been arrested...

Four members of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang go on trial Tuesday in California as the government attempts to bring an end to the white supremacist group. Altogether, twenty members of the gang face eventual trial in...

The president of the NAACP called on the US Justice Department Monday to block New Orleans mayoral elections currently scheduled for April 22, saying they would be "illegal" because the state of Louisiana "cannot guarantee...