Australia's Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard says the United States has been told for a second time that Australia will not resettle detainees freed from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba.

Gillard says U.S. President George W. Bush's administration was told on Friday that a second request made in early December to resettle an unspecified number of detainees had been rejected.

She says the detainees did not meet Australia's stringent national security and immigration criteria.

Just a month after Barack Obama takes office, he must tell the Supreme Court where he stands on one of the most aggressive legal claims made by the Bush administration: that the president may order the military ...

Britain wants to "get off to a good start" with President-elect Barack Obama by offering to take Guantanamo Bay detainees, senior Foreign Office sources said yesterday.

Britain should be prepared to accept prisoners from Guantanamo Bay if it would help the Americans close the camp, Lord Goldsmith has said.

Should Bush administration officials be put on trial for crimes such as authorizing torture? Personally, I'm just relieved to have this crowd heading out of office and their policies -- on torture, on ...

Australia is considering a U.S. request to re-settleinmates from the Guantanamo Bay military prison camp, but would apply strict security screening before accepting an unspecified number.