The Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) and Maoist rebels are violating international human rights laws , according to a new report released by the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)...
Rene Preval became the president-elect of Haiti Thursday after the interim government and the Provisional Election Council (CEP) reached an agreement allowing him to exceed the necessary 50.1 percent of the majority...
A UK parliamentary report released Tuesday concludes that British control orders confining and/or regulating the conduct of suspected terrorists who cannot be prosecuted in courts may violate the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) . Eighteen...
US Vice President Dick Cheney has received a citation for breaking a Texas hunting law by not having the proper stamp giving him permission to shoot quail. The warning was issued by the Texas Parks and Wildlife...
Yemen officials have denied an American request to interrogate detainees taken into custody after the escape of 23 prisoners , including suspected al Qaeda members, from a Yemen prison earlier this month. A Yemen security official,...
Haitian presidential candidate Rene Preval , currently leading in the official count from the February 7 election with 48.76 percent of the votes , said Tuesday that the poll was plagued...
The principals of a US contracting company accused of defrauding the US government during the Iraq war will appear Tuesday in a federal court in Virginia in the first Iraq contract civil fraud case to go to trial. Scott...
An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Sunday confirmed the country's ongoing commitment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened to walk away from the treaty on Saturday....
In anticipation of the upcoming Commonwealth Games scheduled to start in Melbourne March 15, the Parliament of Australia has rushed through a bill making domestic deployment of the Australian Defence Force...
The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic entered its fifth year Monday as proceedings resumed at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , leaving only 22 working days left before...
