In an apparent political climbdown, UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke has approved publication of proposed amendments to the controversial British Identity Cards Bill that would require another Act of Parliament be passed to...

Agreement Between the Attorney General of the State of New York and American International Group Inc., announced February 9, 2006 [settlement of $1.64 billion to end civil litigation against the insurance company alleging fraud, bid-rigging and improper accounting, filed by...

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin Thursday presented a draft bill to the French cabinet introducing the concept of selective immigration . Under the proposed bill, immigration by highly skilled...

A senior Italian judicial source who asked not to be named has said that the 22 CIA agents accused of kidnapping Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr in Milan and transporting him out of the country in 2003 in...

US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) chief Kip Hawley told the Senate Commerce Committee Thursday that the controversial Secure Flight Program will be thoroughly audited before the system is considered for use. The program, which would...

Former Argentine police and army officer Ricardo Taddei, wanted by Argentina for allegedly kidnapping and torturing 166 detainees during Argentina's 1976-1983 "dirty war" , was arrested in Spain Thursday. He is expected...

An Uzbek court Thursday sentenced journalist Saidzhakhon Zainabitdinov to seven years in prison on charges of conspiring with "terrorists," defaming the state, and religious extremism for providing information to foreign media regarding last year's violent uprising in...

Former Serbian army officer Sasa Badnjar, a suspected accomplice of fugitive war criminal Ratko Mladic has been arrested for aiding Mladic's evasion of arrest, Serbian authorities said Thursday. Mladic has successfully avoided arrest, allegedly...

AP is reporting that four holdout Senate Republicans have reached a tentative agreement with the White House on the renewal of the USA Patriot Act , according to Congressional sources. Several provisions ...

The Australian Senate on Thursday voted to remove the need for the health minister's approval for importing and prescribing the abortion pill RU-486 (also known as Mifepristone) . The approval requirement effectively prohibits use of the...