Constitución Política de la República de Chile, enacted September 17, 2005 [heavily-amended version of the 1980 constitution designed to entrench democracy by, inter alia, reducing the presidential term from 6 years to 4 years, giving the president control over the...

Former Illinois Governor George Ryan , who made national headlines and won praise in some quarters in January 2003 when just before leaving office he commuted the executions of all Illinois inmates then on death row [CNN file...

The head of a support group for families of Kuwaiti prisoners held by the US at the Guantanamo Bay military prison has said that American authorities have agreed to release five of the remaining eleven Kuwait prisoners held at...

Iraq's National Assembly Sunday signed off on what a senior lawmaker called the absolute final draft of the country's proposed permanent constitution , and said the text had been turned over to the UN for printing. Deputy...

Nigerian President and current African Union chair Olusegun Obasanjo told the UN General Assembly Saturday at the opening of its regular 60th anniversary session that former Liberian president Charles Taylor, indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone...

A day after leaders attending the 2005 World Summit endorsed a modest package of UN reforms and policy initiatives, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan Saturday pledged he would follow-though on what had been achieved, but...

A lawyer for Tariq Aziz says that an international petition has been started calling for the release of the former Iraqi Foreign Minister and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, currently being held by the US in Iraq without...

As part of a probe into the Hurricane Katrina disaster the US Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee has asked Gulf Coast federal prosecutors whether they have ever had to defend the US Army...

The New Orleans-based federal judge charged with co-ordinating the approximately 1800 pending federal lawsuits relating to the withdrawal of the painkiller Vioxx from pharmacists' shelves last year has ruled that the first federal trial...

A federal judge in Missouri Friday slapped a temporary restraining order on a law signed the day before by Missouri Governor Matt Blunt that allowed parents to file suit against anyone who helped their minor daughters get...