Thai Army chief Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin , who led Tuesday's coup ousting the Thai civilian government , told reporters Wednesday that he will serve as acting prime minister and hopes to find a replacement prime...
The second Saddam Hussein trial resumed in Baghdad Monday with more testimony from prosecution witnesses in the case involving the "Anfal" operation that killed 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the 1980s. One former Kurdish...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told delegates at the opening of the second session of the UN Human Rights Council Monday that the Council should pay more attention to the Darfur...
The British government Monday proposed closing off the possibility of overturning criminal convictions on legal technicalities where the guilt of accuseds is clear. In a new consultation paper the Home Secretary, the Lord Chancellor, and the Attorney...
The Turkish parliament, the Grand National Assembly , is scheduled to meet Tuesday, two weeks earlier than usual, to work on passing reform measures aimed at gaining membership to the European Union . The EU has...
An Israeli military court on Monday postponed a decision on whether 21 defendants, who were who were detained following the Hamas capture of Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit in Gaza in June, should be released from...
Hewlett-Packard's deadline to submit documents to the US House Energy and Commerce Committee expires Monday, and two top executives have been asked to testify before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on the topic of "pretexting," a method...
China's Supreme People's Court has promulgated new rules aimed at preventing leaks of information regarding sensitive cases, and has established a system whereunder all court information will flow through court spokesmen, 65 of whom have already been...
The National Assembly of Serbia voted 219-5 on Tuesday to refer to Kosovo as an "integral and historic" part of Serbia in Serbia's forthcoming constitution, voicing its opposition to efforts by Kosovo [government website; JURIST...
Former US Attorney General John Ashcroft , who resigned from the post in November 2004, told an audience at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Tuesday that President Bush has done less harm to civil liberties than...
