Human rights organizations and legal scholars are applauding the efforts of Spanish lawyers in seeking the indictment of six former officials of the administration of President George W. Bush in connection with the torture of detainees at the U.S. military's...

Human rights advocates are expressing alarm about recent disclosures that medical professionals assisted the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in harsh interrogations at secret prisons overseas and at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. It has also been brought to...

PARIS - Barack Obama's trip to Europe, the Near East, and Iraq was a personal but not a policy triumph. He and his charming wife, Michelle, seem the most popular people on earth at this moment, but that is a slippery plinth upon which to stand, as the two of them...

HAVANA - Seven Democratic congresspersons from the U.S. concluded that it is possible to talk about any issue with Cuba and that "it is time" to do so, at the end of a five-day visit during which they met with both Raúl and Fidel Castro. "Our...