The Sarajevo cantonal court in Bosnia-Herzegovina sentenced Serb Goran Vasic to six years in prison on Wednesday for his role in the cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners at a detention camp near Sarajevo in 1992. Vasic...
A Senate committee approved the nomination of Lester Crawford as the new head of the US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, sending the issue to the full Senate for a final vote. A number...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Wednesday that a dozen former Guantanamo detainees have gone back to fighting against the US since their release, as evidenced by their recapture or confirmed death. Gonzales' statement echos similar...
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , a former French president and architect of the embattled European Constitution , has blamed current French President Jacques Chirac for the rejection of the document by French voters . In a...
A new memo may contradict previous denials by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan that he played no role in the awarding of an oil contract in Iraq to a company his son worked for. Annan was cleared of any wrongdoing...
US House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-WI) said Tuesday that while he thinks that many of the temporary provisions of the Patriot Act should be made permanent, federal investigators should not be...
Despite earlier reports to the contrary, Sudan refused on Wednesday to drop charges against two members of Medecins Sans Frontieres . The two had been arrested and investigated for allegedly "spying, publishing false...
The chairman of the Kyrgyzstan Supreme Court said Tuesday that the court was getting back to work on Tuesday after a month of disruptions cause by protests and occupation of their courthouse in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek....
The US Senate Tuesday confirmed former Senate Legal Counsel Thomas Griffith to the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia by a vote of 73-24 . President Bush had originally chosen Miguel Estrada...
Ten Kuwaiti legislators signed a request Tuesday to put Sunday's appointment of Massouma al-Mubarak as the first female Cabinet minister in Kuwait up for debate in parliament, claiming it to be unconstitutional . The move comes...
