Khalil Dulaimi , chief defense lawyer for deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein , said Sunday he had been notified by "the Americans" that defense lawyers for Hussein and his co-defendants would not be allowed access to their clients. This is the first time that lawyers have been denied access to Saddam since he was granted [...]

Interpol Sunday issued an urgent global security alert following the escape from a prison in Yemen of 23 individuals, some of them suspected Al Qaeda members. Among the fugitives is Jamal Ahmed Badawi , the mastermind behind the 2000 terror attack on the USS Cole , sentenced to fifteen years in jail for his role [...]

Steven Bradbury , acting head of the US Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel , told Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in a closed Senate Intelligence Committee meeting last week that the president may have the executive power to order the killing of terrorist suspects inside the US. During a closed-door session, Feinstein is said to [...]

Current and former intelligence officials and private sector sources, speaking anonymously, have said that the National Security Agency warrantless surveillance program monitoring communication coming from outside the US to US residents has yielded few actionable results, according to a Sunday report in the Washington Post. Fewer than 10 US citizens or residents a year, according [...]

Thousands of Lebanese Muslims angered at caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September and last week were reprinted in other European newspapers protested outside the Danish embassy in Beirut on Sunday and a small group set fire to the building . In a scene reminiscent of Saturday's protests [...]

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki confirmed Sunday that Iran had ceased cooperating with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) , allowing the country to resume uranium enrichment without being subject to IAEA inspections. The move, ordered Saturday by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by voluntarily suspending Iran's adherence to the 1997 Additional Protocol to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty [...]

Implementation of the NPT Safeguards: Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency, February 4, 2006 . Excerpt: 2. Requests the Director General to report to the Security Council of the United Nations that these steps are required of Iran by the Board and to report to the Security Council all IAEA [...]

Residents of Weare, New Hampshire , the town where Justice David Souter of the US Supreme Court owns a farmhouse, rejected a proposal to evict Souter in a town meeting Saturday, and instead substituted a call for the state legislature to strengthen state law on eminent domain . The proposal asked whether the town should [...]

Muslim Syrians set fire to both the Norwegian and Danish embassies in Damascus Saturday, protesting the European publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad and caricaturing him as a terrorist. Protestors first stormed the Danish embassy chanting "God is great," then moved on to the Norwegian embassy. Police fired tear gas into the crowd at [...]

Coretta Scott King, widow of the late Martin Luther King, Jr. and herself a respected civil rights leader, was honored Saturday at the Georgia Capitol . Capitol police estimate that as many as 10,000 people passed through the Capitol to pay their respects as she lay in state, waiting in line for over two hours. [...]