Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said Saturday that members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee intend to expand their probe into warrantless wiretaps within the US after the weekend disclosure that the National Security Agency [official...

China announced Saturday on the last working day that prosecutors were able to bring the case that it is putting journalist Zhao Yan on trial for stealing state secrets and fraud within the next...

Election officials announced Saturday that citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo approved a new constitution in a referendum held December 18. The charter is designed to bring...

The US military will not transfer detainees to Iraqi-operated prisons or transition US-run facilities to Iraqi control until military officials are satisfied that Iraqis have met US standards for the treatment of detainees, according to Maj....

An Iraqi court ruled Saturday that some 100 as-yet-publicly-unspecified candidates - most believed to be Sunnis - who ran in the December 15 Iraqi parliamentary elections will be struck and not allowed to serve in the next national assembly...

The government of Peru has approved 12 of the 17 charges proposed by the country's Supreme Court against former president Alberto Fujimori , currently detained in Chile after being arrested there in November...

French Judge Brigitte Raynaud has decided to open a formal investigation into accusations that French soldiers may have acted in complicity with Hutu militias who killed between 500,000 and 800,000 Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Several...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has again cautioned the Uzbekistan government to observe fair-trial standards after Uzbek courts sentenced another 42 people to 12-20 years in prison during closed hearings Wednesday. Arbour,...

The United Kingdom and Lebanon have signed a memorandum of understanding that specifies that non-UK citizens deported from Britain to Lebanon will not be mistreated. According to a foreign office spokesperson in London, the agreement seeks...

Former Egyptian presidential challenger and Al-Ghad opposition party leader Ayman Nour was sentenced Saturday to five years in prison on charges that he forged signatures required for his name to be on presidential ballots....