VANCOUVER, British Columbia – A former Canadian law enforcement officer who was in charge when police used an electroshock weapon on a Polish immigrant, causing his death has been given a two-year jail term for perjury during a public inquiry into the incident. Former corporal Benjamin Robinson was found guilty …

YANGON, Myanmar – Nearly 7,000 prisoners in Myanmar, including some former military intelligence officials who had been purged by their army colleagues, have been given presidential pardons. An Information Ministry statement posted on its website said 6,966 prisoners, including 210 foreigners, will be freed from various prisons across the country …

Where else but Florida could a place like Jimbo’s exist? It’s a Miami bait shack – emphasis on “shack” – a few miles from downtown but with an isolated island feel and a diverse mix of customers. Beer is self-serve and the 82-year-old owner watches over the activity in a …

MEXICO CITY – First local police in Monterrey lost their assault rifles after an armed confrontation with federal agents while protesting the arrest of cops for alleged gang ties. Now officers in Mexico’s third-largest city will be stripped of cell phones. The legislature in Nuevo Leon state, where Monterrey is …

TOKYO – North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program. The missile, believed to be a Taepodong-2 with a range of …

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan ordered its army to go after the country’s top Taliban commander, a feared Al Qaeda-allied militant whose remote stronghold could prove a difficult test for troops but whose demise would remove a major threat to the country’s stability. The announcement Sunday of the operation in South Waziristan, …

Key dates in the case of John Demjanjuk: — 1920: Born in Ukraine. — 1942: Captured by German forces while serving in the Soviet Red Army. — 1952: Demjanjuk emigrates to the U.S., claims to have spent much of World War II in a German prisoner of war camp. — …

BAGHDAD – A stepped-up campaign by Iraq’s prime minister against Saddam Hussein loyalists is alienating Sunni Muslims and stoking tensions between them and the majority Shiites ahead of key national elections. In its latest anti-Baathist attack, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Shiite-dominated government put three men on state television Sunday to …

The following is a rush transcript of the November 15, 2009, edition of “FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace.” This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: The decision by Attorney General Holder on Friday to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four …

Police in California have arrested a man in connection with a woman’s mysterious death after an off-duty officer found her body at an aquatic park. The Berkeley police officer found the woman lying on the shoreline at Berkeley’s Aquatic Park, an area that is known as a hot spot for …