White House spokesperson Scott McClellan Wednesday dismissed findings from the latest Human Rights Watch annual report alleging that the US has made deliberate and blatant use of torture and the inhumane treatment of prisoners in...

UK fathers' rights group Fathers 4 Justice announced Wednesday that it would disband after the Sun newspaper published a report that some of its members planned to abduct the 5-year-old son of British Prime Minister...

Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday asked his defense minister to create a plan for removing 24 Jewish settler outposts, deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice , from the Palestinian West Bank....

The US military confirmed Wednesday that it currently holds at least 8 female prisoners as security threats at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad after captors of an American journalist demanded the US free all Iraqi...

Egyptian officials have said that 143 Sudanese refugees, detained by Cairo police after a three-month sit-in protest was forcibly broke up, will be released. As many 600 other Sudanese refugees, some of whom hail from the war torn region...

The new chief judge in the Saddam Hussein trial is a member of the banned Baath party and should be replaced, Ali Faisal, executive manager of Iraq's Debaathification Commission , said Wednesday. According...

Five hundred Bosnian police officers launched an ultimately unsuccessful operation on Wednesday near the town of Han Pijesak in an failed attempt to find and arrest either Radovan Karadzic or Ratko Mladic , both of whom...

Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase has said legislation offering amnesty to those involved in a May 2000 racially-motivated coup will be delayed. The Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Immunity Bill has prompted widespread controversy since...

Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, Supreme Court of the United States, January 18, 2006 [remanding a US First Circuit Court of Appeals ruling which had struck down New Hampshire's parental notification law for teenage abortions because it...

The military court-martial of Army Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr. continued Tuesday with arguments from Welshofer's lawyer that interrogation methods used by the army officer were approved by his commander and were not the cause of the death...