Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora formally asked UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Saturday to extend the inquiry into the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri for six...
Police in Bangladesh said Sunday they had detained nearly 50 more suspected Islamist militants connected with several recent suicide attacks on the countrys judiciary, bringing the total of suspects rounded up in the past week at...
The New York Times reported Sunday that FBI officials mishandled a 2002 Florida terror investigation, falsified documents to cover mistakes and retaliated against an agent who reported the problems. The FBI had opened a...
In a bid to appeal to Sunni voters, former Iraqi interim prime minister Iyad Allawi , a Shiite, said in an interview with the UK's Observer newspaper Sunday that human...
Citizens in the former Soviet republic of Armenia voted Sunday on constitutional amendments to impose stricter separation of powers between the judicial, executive and legislative branches. The amendments also remove a clause in the Armenian constitution ...
Britain has caused a diplomatic stir by rejecting a proposal advanced by US ambassador to the UN John Bolton to block the upcoming UN budget as a way to press disputed reforms to the beleagured...
Former Philippines election commissioner Virgilio Garcillano emerged from hiding Sunday to clear President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from election fraud allegations. Garcillano has not been seen in public since June, when the opposition released recordings of...
Lawyers for Saddam Hussein said Sunday they are willing to attend the next trial hearing sxheduled for November 28 if proper protection is provided for the entire defense team. Khalil Dulaimi, head of the defense, stated "e are prepared...
US senators and the White House are discussing a possible ban on torture of suspected terrorists in US custody, but are struggling to find a consensus, according to US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, speaking Sunday on...
By a two-vote margin, the US House of Representatives Friday passed a spending bill that would alter the General Mining Law of 1872 by allowing individuals or companies to file and expand mining claims on...
