The United States has written the blueprints for a new constitution in Bosnia that aims to create a more centrally governed parliamentary democracy, the Guardian reported Thursday. The text is the result of seven months...
Turkey can ban the wearing of headscarves in public and private universities, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday. In its judgment , which is not subject to appeal, the court rejected Leyla Sahin's...
Ralph Uwazurike , the leader of a Nigerian separatist organization has been charged with treason for his role in campaigning for the creation of an independent Biafra Nation . Uwazurike and six other alleged co-conspirators have...
The first hearing in the criminal trial of US Rep. Tom DeLay will be held November 22, Senior Judge Pat Priest has announced. Attorneys for DeLay have asked the judge, who was appointed to...
The Rwandan government wants to send a Catholic priest back to his home of Belgium to face trial on genocide charges and asked its highest court on Tuesday for permission to do so. Catholic missionary Guy Theunis is accused...
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in IBP Inc. v. Alvarez that meat packing companies must pay their workers for the time it takes to change into and out of protective clothing and other...
A former top US State Department official has charged that US Vice President Dick Cheney and his staff were responsible for directives leading to abuse of detainees by US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Halliburton and its subsidiaries have failed to pay their workers in Iraq and Kuwait millions of dollars in overtime in violation of its contracts with the US Army, five workers alleged in a federal...
An all-male jury of four officers and four enlisted personnel has been selected in the trial of a US Army reservist accused of attacking a detainee at an Afghanistan detention center and then lying about his actions, Fort Bliss...
Five Kuwaiti citizens have been released from the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay , Kuwait Foreign Ministry officials confirmed Thursday. The five men are among 11 Kuwaitis who have been imprisoned at Guantanamo for...
