Leading Thursday's international brief, 54 residents from a state-created squatter settlement on the northern border of Zimbabwean captal city Harare have taken their attempt to prevent the government from demolishing their homes to the nation's Supreme Court. Residents of...
Leading Wednesday's international brief, the leading opposition party in Zimbabwe , the Movement for Democratic Change has announced its intention to boycott the opening of the Zimbabwean Parliament Thursday morning by Zimbabwe President Robert...
Leading Tuesday's international brief, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail has told reporters that the Sudan government is not planning to challenge the recently announced probe into Darfur by the International Criminal Court . Ismail reiterated,...
Taiwan's largely ceremonial National Assembly will conduct its final business Tuesday as it votes on proposed amendments to the island-nation's constitution . The passage of the amendments is virtually guaranteed, as the two largest political parties in...
The Nepal Bar Association has called for the immediate dissolution of the royal government and new parliamentary elections after approving a resolution Sunday that characterized the 1 February declaration of a state of emergency by...
The South Korean Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs announced Monday a plan to enact a law that would allow families of South Koreans kidnapped by the North Korean government in the 1960s and '70s to...
Voters in Chad went to the polls Monday to decide whether the current limitation of two terms on the country's president should be removed from Chad's constitution . The referendum is being held in response to a...
A trial chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ruled Monday that former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj would be granted provisional release pending his war crimes trial at The Hague, but...
Kyrgyzstan Prosecutor General Azimbek Beknazarov announced Monday that he had issued an international arrest warrant for former Kyrgyz Prime Minister Nikolai Tanaev , believed to be hiding in Moscow, Russia after fleeing there following the April ouster of...
The president of Australia's Law Council , the official voice of lawyers throughout Australia, criticized wide-ranging anti-terrorism powers granted to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation in testimony Monday before an Australian parliamentary committee. The ASIO has...
