Under new guidelines , US military health professionals are permitted to observe and advise on "lawful" interrogations of detainees, but may not participate in questioning and must report any inhumane treatment. The guidelines, contained in a June...

By a vote of 221-184 the US House of Representatives has passed the United Nations Reform Act of 2005 calling for broad reforms at the UN and allowing the US to withold up to 50 percent of...

Former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski and former CFO Mark Schwartz were convicted Friday of grand larceny in connection with huge bonuses and other compensation amounting to over $150M they improperly received while in charge of the...

Ethiopian officials announced Friday that 336 detainees seized in the wake of post-election protests have been freed. A government spokesman said that any additional prisoners found not to have been involved in the protests would be released....

US District Judge S. Arthur Spiegel has approved the settlement of a civil rights lawsuit between Ford Motor Company and its black employees, granting these employees access to an apprenticeship program. In February, the...

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has asked the Angolan Supreme Court to rule on whether portions of the country's new election laws passed in May are constitutional . Dos Santos has not yet specified...

Croatia on Friday arrested 10 people suspected of committing war crimes against Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s. The arrests were made in eastern Croatia, an area with a large ethnic Serb population and where several former members of the...

To head off a revolt among members of his government over what are increasingly seen as unduly-harsh immigration laws, Australian Prime Minister John Howard has loosened rules for mandatory detention of immigrants who enter the country without...

A private contractor for Zapata Engineering Peter Ginter - himself an ex-Marine with eight years service - has claimed he was abused by US military personnel while detained for three days. Gintner is the second to speak...

Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad , whose 22 years in office until 2003 made him one of Asia's longest-serving political leaders, Friday urged transparency and fairness in the trial of Saddam Hussein while announcing the launch of...