African leaders Tuesday approved a resolution at the fifth African Union Summit seeking two permanent seats on the expanding UN Security Council . The AU is calling for the number of Council seats be increased from...
A Sunni spokesman said Wednesday that a list of names submitted for the fifteen full committee seats on the drafting committee for the new Iraqi constitution had been approved by the Shi'ite and Kurd politicians, despite...
A member of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party said in a speech Wednesday that the International Military Tribunal for the Far East established after World War II may have unjustly tried and convicted Japanese war...
The first ten men to be tried in Sudan for atrocities committed in the volatile Darfur region all pleaded not guilty Tuesday. The men, associated with the government-allied political group called...
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that Russia would be unable to submit an amended border treaty with Estonia to the Russian parliament because amendments inserted by Estonia were an "unambiguously negative assessment...
A lawyer for the first Kuwaiti inmate to be freed from the Guantanamo Bay detention center argued before a Kuwait City tribunal Wednesday that his client should not be tried in Kuwaiti court...
A military court sentenced 12 French soldiers to prison for up to one year on Tuesday for robbing an Ivory Coast bank regularly while stationed with France's Licorne Force backing up a...
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Tuesday ruled that the US Securities and Exchange Commission should reconsider its rule that requires mutual funds to be run by boards with independent chairmen....
The American Civil Liberties Union released a report Tuesday describing what it calls an "assault on scientific and academic freedom" by the Bush Administration. The report purports to detail how the US government has attacked...
A partial recount of votes in last Friday's Iran presidential election was ordered by Iranian electoral authorities Monday after reformist candidates accused military organizations of rigging the first round of voting . The close first election resulted in...
