GENEVA – The top U.N. human rights official on Friday denounced the use of secret detention centers in the war on terrorism, and said governments must treat prisoners according to the law, avoiding torture and providing fair trials. Louise Arbour, in a speech to the new U.N. Human Rights Council, …

BEIRUT, Lebanon – Many Arab governments, Muslim religious leaders and newspapers have been calling for calm in the protests over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons, fearing the violence of the past weeks has only reinforced Islam’s negative image in the West. No major demonstrations took place in Mideast and North African …

WASHINGTON – The federal budget deficit will reach at least $337 billion for the current year, the Congressional Budget Office estimates, and the deficit is likely to go higher because of tax cuts and new additional spending for hurricane relief and the war in Iraq. The deficit estimated by the …

TEHRAN, Iran – A senior Iranian official said Saturday that a proposal by Moscow to enrich Iranian uranium in Russia is dead following the U.N. nuclear agency’s decision to report Iran to the Security Council. Javad Vaeidi, deputy head of the powerful National Security Council, said there was no “adequate …

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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – For better or worse, an 87-year-old woman has married a 49-year-old man who police say bludgeoned his grandmother and great aunt to death 30 years ago and buried them in their beloved rose garden. Frank Czumalowski was married Tuesday in Bridgeport to Radmila Dobrijevickan of Easton. Their …

WASHINGTON – The Navy’s former general counsel warned Pentagon officials two years before the Abu Ghraib prison scandal that circumventing international agreements on torture and detainees’ treatment would invite abuse, according to a published report. Legal theories granting the president the right to authorize abuse in spite of the Geneva …

WASHINGTON – U.S. consumer prices rose a surprisingly large 0.7 percent in January but costs outside of food and energy were up just 0.2 percent as expected, suggesting underlying inflation remains tame, a report by the Labor Department showed Wednesday. Economists had forecast consumer prices would climb 0.5 percent last …

Somebody is whipping up Muslim fury for some reason, and our job now is to figure out what is going on. We can see what’s happening on the TV screen: crazed rioting over some nothing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that ran months ago — September — in a Danish …

HOUSTON – Former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling ordered subordinates to mislead Wall Street about the company’s earnings, a former top executive testified Tuesday. The testimony by Kenneth Rice, a former member of Enron management’s inner circle, was one more blow against Skilling in the financial scandal that brought down …