The Constitutional Court of Romania Thursday ruled that parts of the law creating the National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives (CNSAS) are unconstitutional. Head of the Supreme...
Former Indonesian President Haji Mohammed Suharto died Sunday at age 86. Suharto, a former US Cold War ally, presided over what is considered to be one of the most brutal dictatorships of the 20th...
The Russian Central Election Commission issued a unanimous decision Sunday to ban former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov from running in the March presidential election. The Election Commission found that hundreds of thousands of signatures he...
A senior Spanish official said Friday that Spanish authorities have initiated legal proceedings to ban two Basque political parties for ties to ETA , the armed Basque separatist movement. Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa...
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has approved changes to the country's restrictive Public Order and Security Act ahead of upcoming presidential elections, Zimbabwean state media reported Saturday. The law formerly prohibited public political gatherings without prior...
Pakistani police have arrested two suspects in connection with the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto , officials said on Saturday. Aitzaz Shah and Sher Zaman were detained in the town of Dera Ismail...
The five alleged plotters of an attack on Fort Dix pleaded not guilty Friday to new charges filed against them, including attempted murder, and received a new date for trial. Prosecutors filed the additional charges ...
Jaafar al-Moussawi, the chief prosecutor in the trial of Saddam Hussein says he has been demoted and transferred from Baghdad to the northern city of Sulaimaniya after speaking out against the Iraqi High Tribunal [official website,...
Ousted Pakistani Supreme Court Justice Rana Bhagwandas was placed under house arrest Saturday for urging members of the Karachi Bar Association to boycott judges who had taken oaths of office under President Pervez Musharraf's now-abrogated Provisional...
Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was formally charged with extortion in Dhaka on Sunday. Hasina and co-defendant Sheikh Selim, a former Minister of Government, are accused of extorting around $1.16 million from two...
