AP is reporting that the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has denied the Bush administration's request to transfer Jose Padilla from military to civilian law enforcement custody. Padilla, a US citizen, was detained over three years ago for allegedly planning to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in the US, but was indicted [...]

The International Federation for Human Rights and the League of Human Rights have filed a lawsuit in French court seeking more information about whether the US Central Intelligence Agency operated prisoner rendition flights that landed in France. The European rights groups are reacting to reports that CIA flights have landed at two French airports since [...]

An attorney for John Walker Lindh , the American caught fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, said Tuesday that Lindh has again asked President Bush to commute his 20-year prison sentence . Lindh was sentenced in 2002 after reaching a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. Under the agreement, Lindh pleaded guilty to supplying [...]

AP is reporting that the US Senate has rejected a proposal to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling. The proposal was included as part of the 2006 military spending bill . 12:55 PM ET – Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid argued on the Senate floor Wednesday that the version of the [...]

Congo's Information Minister Henri Mova-Sakanyi said Tuesday that the country is reassessing the damages it will request from Uganda following an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that Uganda violated the Congo's sovereignty during a 1998-2003 war and was responsible for human rights abuses and the plundering of Congolese natural resources. The ICJ ordered Uganda [...]

AP is reporting that Saddam Hussein has claimed in trial proceedings Wednesday in Baghdad that he has been beaten "everywhere on my body" while in detention. Hussein's allegations came during an extended outburst during proceedings Wednesday at the Iraqi Special Tribunal and the chief prosecutor said that if Hussein had been beaten by the US-led [...]

A day after the first democratically elected parliament in 30 years in Afghanistan held its inaugural session , proceedings in the national assembly nearly broke down Tuesday after a delegate called for all of the country's human rights abusers and "criminal warlords" be brought to justice. Malali Joya's comments came during parliament's first working session [...]

The US Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) . Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) has added the measure to the 2006 military spending bill , though Democrats have threatened to filibuster the bill because the ANWR provision is unrelated to military spending and [...]

US District Judge James Robertson , one of 11 members of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) , has resigned in protest over the National Security Agency's secret domestic surveillance program , according to a report Wednesday in the Washington Post. Robertson submitted his resignation letter to Chief Justice John Roberts late Monday, and though [...]

The Saddam Hussein trial resumed in Baghdad Wednesday, with the former ruler ending his boycott of court proceedings . The Iraqi High Criminal Court (formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal ) heard testimony from its ninth witness, Ali Mohammed Hussan al-Haydari, who was 14 during the 1982 massacre in Dujail and whose family was tortured. Hussein, [...]