AP is reporting that Newsweek magazine has officially retracted its May 9 story that US personnel at Guantanamo had desecrated the Koran. Editors at the magazine began publicly backtracking from the story Sunday night after a source...
After days of deadly anti-US rioting in Afghanistan , protests in other Muslim countries, and condemnations of American actions by civil and judicial leaders around the Muslim world, Newsweek editors have backtracked on their story of...
Three Saudi reformers on trial for sedition and using Western tactics in calling for the institution of a limited constitutional monarchy in Saudi Arabia were sentenced to prison terms of six to nine years Sunday. Human rights observers and...
The Iranian parliament Sunday passed a measure encouraging Iran's government to resume the "peaceful use" of nuclear technology consistent with international law and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). In referring to "provision of the fuel cycle for...
A federal appeals court Friday upheld a lower court ruling that the inscription "In God We Trust" above the doorway of a county government building in North Carolina is not an unconstitutional infringement of the separation of...
A US military investigator has cleared a US Marine of murder charges in connection with the deaths of two Iraqi prisoners. 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano stood accused of killing the two prisoners execution-style on April...
As anti-US violence continued for a fourth day in Afghanistan on Saturday, Afghan Chief Justice Fazl Hadi Shinwari called for an American apology and punishment for those responsible if recent allegations about desecration of the...
A spokesman for new Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's Dawa Party said Saturday that arrest warrants have been issued for two former cabinet ministers in former Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's government. Ex-Transport Minister Louei Hatim Sultan...
Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party has won the most seats in Saturday's election for a special assembly charged with considering proposed amendments to the island country's constitution, a delicate task in light of...
The head of Uzbekistan's Independent Human Rights Organization was quoted Saturday as saying that some 200 people were killed in the eastern city of Andijan Friday when government forces backed by tanks opened fire on demostrators in...
