In his weekly radio address Saturday, President Bush acknowledged that he has approved secret eavesdropping in the US and said that he has no intention of putting an end to National Security Agency monitoring...

The appeals chamber at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Friday stayed a trial chamber decision that would have allowed former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj to return to...

The US House of Representatives late Friday evening narrowly approved a tough new border security and immigration bill that includes plans to build a security fence across 621 miles of the Mexican border and...

New York-based human rights Human Rights Watch warned Friday that the McCain Amendment prohibiting the cruel and inhumane treatment of US-held detainees that was finally endorsed Thursday by a reluctant Bush administration could yet be...

Canadian-born media tycoon Conrad Black , former chairman of publishing giant Hollinger International, pleaded not guilty in Chicago Friday to an additional four felony counts that include racketeering and obstruction of justice. Black,...

Sixteen key sections of the Patriot Act came closer to year-end expiration Friday as the Republican leadership in the US Senate failed to get the votes of three-fifths of the...

The French Senate has approved a slightly amended version of a new anti-terror law providing for increased public video surveillance, more access by authorities to communications records and passenger information, and new...

The British government has announced that it will appeal a High Court ruling earlier this week that found Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks eligible for British citizenship. Hicks, whose mother is British...

The trial of Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk for slander against the state was adjourned Friday until February 7, 2006 to give Turkey's Justice Ministry time to decide if the case is in line with judicial procedures after...

Austria Thursday mailed notifications to the first survivors of the Holocaust eligible for payments in its 2001 General Settlement Fund which compensates victims robbed of businesses, property, bank accounts and insurance policies under the...