UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari told the UN Security Council Wednesday that the human rights situation in Iraq requires urgent action . Gambari expressed concern over the "increasingly disturbing reports" of abuses occurring in...
The US House committee investigating the government's actions in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina issued a subpoena Wednesday commanding Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to turn over internal records on the Pentagon's efforts to stabilize...
Officials from the US Department of Defense have said that they will review its TALON program , which gathers information about potential threats to military facilities, after an NBC News report disclosed that the database also...
Chemical giant DuPont has agreed to pay over $10 million in fines and another $6 million for environmental projects in order to settle allegations that the company hid information about the dangers of a chemical...
EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini said Wednesday that so far there is no evidence that confirms allegations that the CIA operated secret prisons in Eastern Europe. Frattini's comments come the day after the Council of...
Iraqi border police seized a tanker Tuesday evening that had just crossed the border with Iran which contained several thousand forged ballots. According to an Iraqi official, the truck driver told police that at least three other trucks had...
AP is reporting that the US House has voted 251-174 to renew provisions of the USA Patriot Act that were set to expire at the end of this year. The reauthorization bill ...
An additional 114 people went on trial Wednesday in Uzbekistan on charges stemming from the May 2005 Andijan uprising , which led to government troops killing as many as 500 protestors . The Uzbek Supreme Court has...
Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay said Tuesday that the company's former CEO Andrew Fastow was to blame for the accounting fraud that led to the company's downfall and that his trust in Fastow was "fatally...
Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday said that countries have a duty to respect international humanitarian law "even in the midst of war." In the Pope's peace message , released in advance of the Catholic church's...
