An Australian government commission investigating Australian participation in the now-defunct UN oil-for-food program in Iraq has recommended that criminal charges be brought against 12 business executives for paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's former regime ....
Thirty Philippine military officers will face courts-martial on mutiny charges in connection with their alleged involvement in a February coup plot to overthrow the government of Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo , a general...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Monday condemned human rights violations occurring in the Palestinian authorities, saying that violations were "intolerable" and expressing concern for civilians in the area. Arbour is currently visiting the...
Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolanos has signed a law that bans all abortion and eliminates a longstanding exception for the health of the mother. Abortion has long been illegal in Nicaragua, though tempered by...
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney on Sunday urged state legislators to vote on a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage ban and said he will petition the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to place the question...
The Italian cabinet met Monday to relieve the head of Italy's intelligence agency of his duties, a move prompted by suspicions that he was involved in the alleged 2003 CIA kidnapping of Egyptian cleric...
Saddam Hussein's trial for crimes against humanity committed in Dujail was "fundamentally unfair" and the guilty verdict lacks legitimacy due to procedural and substantive flaws, according to a report released by advocacy group Human Rights Watch...
The US Central Intelligence Agency has acknowledged the existence of a memorandum, signed by President Bush, that authorizes the detention and interrogation of terror suspects overseas in a letter sent to the American Civil...
A Nepal newspaper reported Tuesday that a blue-ribbon panel investigating possible human rights violations in the police response to anti-democracy protests last spring that left 22 dead and more than 5,000 wounded will blame King Gyanendra...
US Vice President Dick Cheney and his former chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby asked a federal court Tuesday to dismiss the civil lawsuit brought against them and other...
