Polish government spokesperson Konrad Ciesiolkiewicz announced Tuesday that an official probe into the alleged existence of secret CIA prisons in the country has ended. Zbigniew Wassermann , the Polish minister in charge of the country's intelligence services, delivered...

Russian prosecutors leading the probe into the September 2004 Beslan school siege issued a report Monday concluding that Chechen terrorists, not Russian authorities, were to blame for the deaths of 330 people, mostly children. Another...

Khalil Dulaimi, chief Iraqi defense counsel for Saddam Hussein, told the Jordanian newspaper Al Arab Al Yawm in a report published Monday that Saddam Hussein's half brother, Barzan Ibrahim had been offered...

In a move to bolster its democratic credentials, the Council of the European Union , the EU's senior decision-making body, will begin to debate and vote more often in public in the new year. Television cameras will be...

The Supreme Court of Chile on Monday denied the appeal of former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet on human rights charges, ruling 3-2 in support of a lower appeals court decision...

Former Bosnian Serb general and indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic is reported to be discussing his surrender with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , according...

Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Monday he will seek a royal pardon from King Norodom Sihanouk rather than appeal the 18-month sentence he was given last Thursday following an in absentia conviction for two...

The first war crimes trial in the history of Afghanistan began Monday in Kabul as a former Afghan intelligence chief faced charges of authorizing the arrest, torture, and mass killings of hundreds of opponents of the country's Communist government...

State media in China said Monday that a revised Chinese law submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) calls for prison sentences of up to three years and heavy fines for doctors and...

Russian military prosecutors said Monday that they had dropped charges against former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko , accused of offering bribes to Russian Defense Department officials while managing Ukraine's state-run gas company. The...