Kizza Besigye , the president of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party, was arrested and charged with treason and rape in Uganda Monday. Prosecutors allege that Besigye participated in acts of treason to...
Reaction from Capitol Hill Monday to President Bush's nomination of Judge Samuel Alito of the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals to fill the US Supreme Court seat left vacant by retiring justice Sandra Day O'Connor has...
The civil trial of former El Salvadoran military officer and naturalized US citizen Nicolas Carranza commenced in US District Court in Memphis Monday. Carranza was vice president of defense and director of the Salvadoran Treasury police during...
European Commission officials are preparing to warn Bulgaria and Romania that the 2007 scheduled entry of both countries into the European Union may be delayed until 2008 if both nations do not...
A spokesman for Iraq's Ministry of Human Rights said Monday that 565 prisoners would be released from Abu Ghraib prison before the Muslim religious holiday of Al-Fitr at the end of the holy month...
Syrian lawyers and judges have protested in Damascus against the UN report on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri suggesting that his murder was sanctioned by the Syrian government. Members of the Syrian...
Speaking before the UK Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights Monday, UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke said that new anti-terror legislation recently proposed by the government would have a direct impact on militant...
Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Hussein Ali Kamal said Saturday that the Iraqi government will step up security measures for the 12 remaining defense lawyers representing Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants. The announcement comes two days...
According to an attorney for former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) , prosecutors in his case offered DeLay a deal that would have allowed him to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges, thus avoiding felony charges...
In a White House meeting Monday with visiting Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov , President Bush urged the Libyan government to release five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death for intentionally causing an AIDS outbreak at a Benghazi children's hospital...
