Singapore has rejected a call by former political prisoners to scrap a British colonial law allowing detention without trial, saying it allows the government to fight serious security threats.

Washington aims to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre before next year's November US presidential election, US Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is caught in a standoff with Congress over records documenting the release of suspected militants from the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo, Cuba.

A British inquiry into claims of complicity in the mistreatment of alleged terrorists will examine accusations the country's spies helped with the rendition of suspects to Libya, a spokesman said Monday.

A British inquiry into claims of complicity in the mistreatment of alleged terrorists will examine accusations the country's spies helped with the rendition of suspects to Libya, a spokesman said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney's new memoir revives the fierce battles over U.S. national security policies after the September 11 attacks as it rips open old wounds among aides to President George W. Bush.

The 9/11 attacks prompted an outpouring of international sympathy and support for the United States, but Washington's subsequent "war on terror" undercut the superpower's moral authority.

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for a civil suit against former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld by two Americans who allege they were tortured while being held by the US military in Iraq.

The convicted ringleader of the US military guards who abused detainees at Abu Ghraib and took scandalous pictures of their acts was released on parole from military prison, the US Army said.

Toronto-born Omar Khadr, the youngest detainee ever held at the US "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has fired his Canadian lawyers, one of the attorneys said Friday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Human rights groups and campaigning lawyers will not take part in an inquiry into what British security services knew about the alleged torture of terrorism suspects on foreign soil because it risks becoming a "whitewash," they said Thursday.

Rights groups and lawyers said Thursday they would boycott an inquiry into alleged secret service involvement in the torture of terror suspects, accusing it of lacking credibility.

An Australian court on Wednesday froze all assets derived from the sales of ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks' memoirs ahead of a hearing on whether they were proceeds of crime.

Just 10 out of a previous total of 129 Saudi detainees now remain at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a local daily reported on Sunday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Striking the United States remains a "significant goal" for al Qaeda and its affiliates nearly a decade after the September 11 attacks, the president's nominee to head the National Counterterrorism Center said on Tuesday.

An exiled leader of China's Uighur minority has said she feared for the safety of dozens of people she said were injured in recent clashes with police in the country's Xinjiang region and then detained.

An exiled leader of China's Uighur minority said Monday she feared for the safety of dozens of people she said were injured in recent clashes with police in the country's Xinjiang region and then detained.

Australia on Thursday said it was preparing to sue ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks for the royalties from his tell-all book, claiming they should be considered proceeds of crime.

Australia on Thursday said it was preparing to sue ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks for the royalties from his tell-all book, claiming they should be considered proceeds of crime.

Amnesty International has called on Iraqi authorities to halt the upcoming executions of five top officials from Saddam Hussein's regime, including two of the dictator's half-brothers.