The Hamas-controlled Palestinian Legislative Council on Monday voted to strip Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of powers given him last month by the lame-duck parliament dominated by Abbas' Fatah party . Among those was...
AP is reporting that South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds has signed legislation that will ban most abortions in the state, excluding only those necessary to save a woman's life. Under the bill , approved by the state...
The US Supreme Court in a unanimous decision Monday upheld the Solomon Amendment , which requires educational institutions, including law schools, to allow military recruiters on campus in order to receive federal...
An Uzbek court on Monday sentenced opposition leader Sandjar Umarov to 10 years and eight months in prison for organizing a criminal group, tax evasion and money laundering. Umarov, leader of the opposition Sunshine Uzbekistan Coalition [party...
Milan Babic , former wartime leader of Croatia's rebel Serbs during the Balkan wars, was found dead in his cell at a UN detention facility Sunday after he committed suicide. Babic was sentenced by the...
Former California Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham has been sentenced to eight years and four months in prison for corruption. Cunningham pleaded guilty last November to charges of conspiracy to...
CNN is reporting that Research in Motion , maker of the BlackBerry wireless device, has reached a $612.5 million settlement in its patent dispute with NTP Inc. In 2003, the US District Court for the Eastern...
Ivory Coast President Lauren Gbagbo has signed an extradition order authorizing Youssef Fofana to be transferred to France where he is wanted in connection with the kidnapping, torture and killing of a Jewish man outside Paris. Ivory...
Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Friday lifted a state of emergency , which Arroyo initially put in place last week after discovering a coup threat. Arroyo kept the state of emergency in...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said that he is "chagrined" about the US opposition to a draft resolution that would create a new UN Human Rights Council to replace the widely...
