A month-long conference at the United Nations to review the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty ended Friday with no consensus. Ambassador Sergio Duarte of Brazil, President of the 2005 NPT Review Conference told a press briefing that...
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has asked the UN Security Council to renew resolution 1546 , authorizing a US-led multinational force to remain in Iraq. Citing the latest wave of...
Hong Kong acting Chief Executive Donald Tsang tendered his resignation Wednesday, shortly after the Legislative Council passed a controversial amendment to the Chief Executive Election Ordinance that will cut short the term of the...
AP is reporting that Hummam Hammoudi, a Shiite Muslim cleric who is a senior aide in the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq , will likely be announced as head of the Iraqi constitution committee....
President Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai met in the White House East Room Monday to discuss US military operations in Afghanistan . The leaders were able to agree on a joint declaration that US...
AP is reporting that a bipartisan group of Senators has reached a deal to avert a showdown over judicial nominees. Sources state that under the agreement, Democrats would pledge not to filibuster any of Bush's future appeals court or...
In a sure sign that Republicans are prepared to spend all night debating the filibuster, workers Monday set up dozens of cots in the Strom Thurmond Room of the Capitol. The session to decide President Bush's nomination of Pricilla...
British Colonel Jorge Mendonca, the commander in charge of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment troops in Iraq, faces the possibility of court martial and jail time for his alleged involvement in the death of a detainee by forces...
A federal jury in Illinois has rejected a Muslim groups claim that city officials violated their civil rights by blocking its 2001 plans to turn a vacant Christian church into a mosque. The Al Salam Mosque Foundation argued that...
Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano Friday vetoed a series of bills that would have prohibited illegal immigrants from receiving child care assistance, instate tuition benefits and given the state police power to enforce federal immigration laws. Supporters of...
