More than 500,000 pro-immigration activists took to the streets in Los Angeles on Saturday to protest Congressional efforts to crack down on illegal immigration . The protest came in anticipation of Senate debate on a reform...
Thousands of opposition supporters rallied in Minsk Sunday to protest what they claimed were the rigged results of the Belarus presidential election, defying threats of a government crackdown. Current president Alexander Lukashenko ,...
The US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee says it will approve legislation by mid-May to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling . The statement comes in...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague will begin proceedings at an arraignment Monday against its first defendant, Thomas Lubanga , founder of Congolese rebel group the Union of Patriotic Congolese ....
The Sudanese government has threatened to withdraw from the African Union (AU) if a proposed takeover of the AU's peacekeeping mission in the Darfur region by the United Nations goes into effect....
Leaders of the both the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches have sharply criticized the US prison at Guantanamo Bay as international pressure builds to close down the controversial facility that currently contains almost 500 individuals the...
US District Judge John Gleeson Friday temporarily stayed an injunction that would have changed New York's unique system of nominating its elected state trial court judges in political conventions rather than...
Russian diplomats Saturday criticized the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for its Friday refusal to grant former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic provisional release so that he might travel to Russia...
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said Saturday he will lobby the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference to make blasphemy an internationally-recognized criminal offense in the wake of controversy...
US Federal District Court Judge Jose Linares, presiding over a lawsuit by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to block United Arab Emirates -owned Dubai Ports World from taking over the...
