President Barack Obama appears near a compromise to allow military tribunals to move forward for the alleged September 11 plotters in exchange for a deal to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Influential Republican Senator Lindsey Lindsey Graham has offered a deal that would allow Obama to fulfill his pledge to close the criticized Guantanamo Bay detention center at a ...

The UN's independent expert on torture on Wednesday criticised the Obama administration for not investigating allegations of torture made when president George W. Bush was in power. "This is my criticism of the Obama administration: There is not enough done to remedy what has been done in the past," Manfred Nowak, UN special rapporteur on torture, told journalists. "I ...

Northern Ireland's MPs have approved a landmark deal transferring key powers from London to Belfast, in what Prime Minister Gordon Brown hailed as the "final end" to decades of conflict. The vote in the Northern Ireland Assembly on Tuesday was passed by 88 votes to 17 after a stormy debate and, in the hours leading up to it, a ...

Northern Ireland faced a crunch vote on policing and justice Tuesday, prompting a rare intervention from former US president George W. Bush as leaders scrambled to keep devolution on track. Bush called the leader of Britain's main opposition Conservatives, David Cameron, in the hope of persuading him to talk his allies the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) out of opposing ...