Leading Thursday's international brief, a Peruvian judge has ordered the arrest of 118 current and retired military officers for their alleged involvement in a 1988 attack against the Andean village of Cayara , in which soldiers allegedly tortured and killed civilians in an attempt to gain information concerning a prior Shining Path attack. The order, [...]

A Pentagon spokesman said Thursday that there was "no evidence" of widespread abuse of prisoners by medical personnel at Guantanamo, denying earlier media reports . Accusations of physical abuse had followed criticism about use of detainees' medical records against them . A Pentagon spokesman did say that changes in procudures for the medical treatment of [...]

Lawyers for Mikhail Khodorkovsky announced Thursday after a meeting with prosecutors in Moscow that no new charges had been filed against the former Yukos CEO. Earlier, local media had reported that new money laundering charges were going to be announced when lawyers were summoned to the detention facility where Khodorkovsky is being held.

An Al-Qaeda group in Iraq has claimed to have executed Eyhab al-Sharif, Egypt's top ambassador to Iraq. He was kidnapped on Saturday shortly after arriving in Baghdad as the first envoy from a major Arab state to the new Iraqi government, and would be the first high-level foreign diplomat to be killed by insurgents. A [...]

New York Times reporter Judith Miller , who was ordered jailed for contempt after refusing to reveal a source in conjunction with a federal criminal investigation into an intelligence leak, is at the Alexandria Detention Facility in Alexandria, Virginia, after being brought to the facility late Wednesday. The jail, touted as a "New Generation" facility, [...]

Indonesia's highest court Thursday rejected a challenge from environmental groups and upheld a law enabling 13 mining companies to operate in protected forests. The Constitutional Court ruled that the law did not violate the 1945 constitution and that the government must honor commitments to the companies . Such mining was banned in 1999 but in [...]

AP is reporting that the US terror alert level will be raised to code orange for mass transit in the wake of London explosions, according to US officials. 12:37 PM ET – The UN Security Council has been called into emergency consultative session on the London bombings, and a formal public meeting may follow later [...]

US Defense Department officials Wednesday required CNN to erase any footage that might allow Guantanamo prisoners to be identified during a recent visit . Taking up a challenge to reporters from President Bush to come see the facility amidst allegations of abuse, CNN's visit was also frustrated by a prohibition against speaking to any prisoners [...]

Lawyers for US Army Pfc. Lynndie England will request at a pretrial hearing Thursday that Judge Col. James Pohl be removed from the case. Pohl had presided over England's first trial, in which he threw out her guilty plea after her statements were contradicted by those made by former boyfriend Pvt. Charles Graner Jr. , [...]

A civil trial of American Electric Power , the nation's biggest power company, opened Wednesday on charges by the government and eight states that it had violated the Clean Air Act . The suit against AEP alleges violations in connection with modifications made to power plants that didn't include the installation of pollution-reduction devices. Similar [...]