Two men have been charged for leaking a UK government memo that led to a newspaper report Tuesday that said UK Prime Minister Tony Blair had talked President Bush out of bombing the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera...
Organizers of a gay rights parade in Poland on Tuesday sued the mayor of Poznan for banning the event. The group has alleged that the ban violated their right to freedom of assembly...
The US on Tuesday threatened to hold up approval of a two-year UN budget unless reforms agreed to in September were acted on by the end of the year. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the reform proposals...
Mexico's National Commission for Human Rights on Tuesday said that the country's police and prosecutors continue to use torture despite pledges by President Vicente Fox to halt such...
A UN human rights official has called for an investigation into the killings of two defense lawyers representing co-defendants of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein . The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions [official...
Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr said Thursday that reports of abuse of detainees by Iraqi security forces were exaggerated. Jabr said that only five people discovered at a prison in an Interior Ministry building...
A court created by Sudan to try war-crimes suspects for atrocities committed in the Darfur region of the country has sentenced two soldiers to death for the killing of a Sudanese citizen. The...
An American businessman has been charged with paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to US authorities in charge of the reconstruction in Iraq to obtain millions in contracts, the New York Times reported Thursday. According...
US District Judge Rosemary Collyer on Wednesday held Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus in contempt after he failed to reveal confidential sources from a story he reported about an investigation into nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee [advocacy...
The Italian Senate on Wednesday approved a constitutional amendment that grants increased powers to both the prime minister and to regional governments within Italy . Legislators approved the changes by a 170-132 vote,...
