Alexander Torshin, the head of the Russian parliamentary commission investigating last year's Beslan school siege told the upper house of parliament Wednesday that despite their exoneration by prosecutors earlier this week,...

Former Enron Chief Accounting Officer Richard Causey has reached a deal with prosecutors and is expected to plead guilty Wednesday to one or more criminal charges and a reduced prison sentence in exchange for his...

CIA inspector general John Helgerson has launched an investigation into fewer than ten cases of possibly erroneous rendition , according to an intelligence official quoted by AP. In several cases it is believed that either...

US District Judge Ivan Lemelle Tuesday urged federal and state officials to work together and quickly set a date for the postponed New Orleans mayoral primary elections at a hearing of...

On a brief visit to Iraq Tuesday US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter met with the chief judge overseeing the Saddam Hussein trial , telling reporters gathered in the trial chamber before the meeting...

The US State Department said Tuesday that Iraqi prisons are only “nominally” under control of the elected government in Baghdad, acknowledging that they are in practice run by the Shiite-led Interior Ministry , which has not yet...

The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) substantively modified 179 Bush administration wiretap requests made after 2001, after declining to modify a single request in 20 of the 21 years between 1979 and 1999, according to an...

Turkish prosecutors launched an inquiry Tuesday into whether slander charges should be brought against a European Union lawmaker who made disparaging remarks about the Turkish army, an act criminalized by the revised Turkish penal code . Dutch legislator...

A Serbian security official said Tuesday that Serb police had intercepted a cell phone conversation involving Bosnian Serb general and indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic , the strongest lead police have thusfar developed in...

Saddam Hussein has authorized three more lawyers to work with the four already representing him at his Baghdad trial for the 1982 massacre at Dujail that left as many as...