The Republican majority in the Georgia legislature has pushed through a revised voter ID bill which would require all voters to show either a driver's license, military ID or state-issued identification card with a photo prior...
Recent delays in the Saddam Hussein trial have created a "dysfunctional court" that is incapable of conducting a fair hearing, members of Saddam Hussein's legal team, including former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark ,...
A European Union spokesman said Monday that Turkey's action in dropping charges against novelist Orhan Pamuk for "insulting Turkishness" was "good news". EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn cautioned,...
The US Supreme Court on Monday refused to reconsider a federal court ruling that the BlackBerry , the hand-held internet and email device from Research in Motion (RIM) , violated existing patent rights. Last August,...
A ban on public gatherings, night-time curfews and other restrictions in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal capital, has been lifted by government officials. Nepalese officials have also lifted a ban on mobile phone use and released...
Egyptian officials have said that 143 Sudanese refugees, detained by Cairo police after a three-month sit-in protest was forcibly broke up, will be released. As many 600 other Sudanese refugees, some of whom hail from the war torn region...
The new chief judge in the Saddam Hussein trial is a member of the banned Baath party and should be replaced, Ali Faisal, executive manager of Iraq's Debaathification Commission , said Wednesday. According...
Five hundred Bosnian police officers launched an ultimately unsuccessful operation on Wednesday near the town of Han Pijesak in an failed attempt to find and arrest either Radovan Karadzic or Ratko Mladic , both of whom...
An attempt by a special prosecutor to try former Mexican president Luis Echeverria on genocide charges for the massacre of hundreds of students during a 1968 demonstration was rejected by Wednesday by the Mexican Supreme Court [official...
US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton and representatives from other UN member countries resumed negotiations Wednesday on the creation of a new UN rights watchdog to replace the Human Rights Commission . At the closed...
