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French newspaper Le Figaro reported Friday that two CIA-chartered flights made secret stops in France in 2002 and 2005 , bolstering allegations that the intelligence agency used the flights to transport Islamist terror...

Members of the European Parliament on Thursday criticized EU leaders for failing to push the United States on recent reports of a secret network of CIA prisons in Europe used to hold suspected terrorists. British...

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says he has written a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice , on behalf of EU nations , questioning the landing of CIA planes in nineteen airports [Guardian...

UK rights group Liberty has threatened to take legal action against the British government and senior police officers unless they agree to investigate allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency has operated "torture...

Israeli officials announced Sunday that they will urge Britain to restrict laws which allow private war crimes suits to be filed against foreign citizens. The request was prompted by an incident last week where Doron Almog, former commander of...

The International Atomic Energy Agency released a report Friday that found Iran had resumed previously suspended nuclear activities, raising the possibility that the issue will be referred to the UN Security...

Seventeen British families who lost relatives in Iraq will go to Britain's High Court Wednesday to demand an independent inquiry into the legality of the Iraq war . The families argue that the nation's Human Rights Act ...

After last week's bombings in London, UK foreign minister Jack Straw has joined with European Union justice commissioner Franco Frattini in calling for new EU rules to allow government access to telecommunications data ....

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in an interview Tuesday with the Financial Times that Britain will attempt to salvage some key components from the nearly-defunct EU Constitution. UK Secretary of State for Foreign and...

Downing Street confirmed Monday that the UK was postponing indefinitely a referendum on the troubled EU constitution after the charter's rejection by both France and the Netherlands . The vote had been expected for spring 2006....