Leading Tuesday's international brief, the foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council have agreed to present the issue of Iran's nuclear enrichment program to the Council following a report by International Atomic...
Leading Monday's international brief, the Sudanese government has criticized a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights report released last Friday which sharply condemned the human rights condition in Darfur . Jamal Mohamed Ibrahim,...
Leading Friday's international brief, the UN Security Council is considering sanctions against both rebel and government elements in Cote d'Ivoire that are accused of purposefully delaying and sabotaging fragile peace negotiations in the nation, which has been...
Kyrgyz Prime Minister Felix Kulov has appealed to the Kyrgyzstan Parliament to grant him control of parts of the Interior Ministry that govern the nation's police agencies. Kulov alleges that a recent crime wave, including the...
The Moscow City Court has announced that it will hear an appeal from former Russian nuclear minister Yevgeny Adamov concerning a lower court decision to extend his custody until April 12. Adamov's lawyer...
Leading Thursday's international brief, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said that he's sending UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicolas Michel to Lebanon to assist government officials there in identifying the "nature and scope of the international assistance"...
Leading Wednesday's international brief, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres has called on the UN Security Council to create a UN peacekeeping force for the Darfur region of Sudan ....
Leading Tuesday's international brief, the Democratic Republic of Congo will hold the chairmanship of the African Union (AU) for 2006 under an agreement reached by a five-nation panel assigned to develop a compromise to the tense standoff...
A Council of Europe report released Tuesday argues that not only did alleged secret prisons run by the CIA in Europe exist, but that many European governments knew of the prisons and 'turned a blind eye'....
A Russian court in Moscow has ordered that the financial assets of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev be seized to pay alleged back taxes and fines for the Yukos oil company. Yukos [corporate...
