A poll of 2700 Iraqis released Friday reports that three out of four citizens believe that Islam should be a primary source of Iraqi law and legislation, with only two percent of respondents believing that religion...
President Bush and visiting Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo discussed how indicted ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor might be brought to trial during a meeting Thursday at the White House. Taylor, now in exile in Nigeria, has been charged...
Nepalese political leaders and rights activists Friday condemned the bringing of corruption charges against former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, with the head of Nepal's Informal Sector Service Center calling the royal anti-graft commission a...
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a report released Thursday that an increase in allegations of sexual abuse against UN peacekeepers and related staff is "deeply troubling," but may be related to "the newly...
The US Army has announced that President Bush Thursday approved the demotion of Brigadier General Janis Karpinski to colonel, effectively ending her military career. Karpinski, the former commanding officer at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, had...
Members of the family of Emmett Till , a 14-year-old black youngster killed after whistling at a white woman in 1955, are vehemently opposing the FBI's plan to exhume the boy's body . Two suspects in the...
Pfc. Lynndie England's lead civilian lawyer has resigned . Speaking Thursday, Richard Hernandez of Denver cited the heavy financial burden of working on the high-profile case without compensation over such a long time. Following a military's judge's...
The US government and Zacarias Moussaoui's defense team filed a joint proposal Thursday asking Judge Leonie Brinkema to allow the penalty phase of Zacarias Moussaoui's trial to begin with jury selection on January 9, 2006, with opening statements...
A Russian immigrant turned Israeli soldier was arrested in Israel for ties to neo-Nazi groups Thursday just as Israel was marking Holocaust Remambrance Day on the 60th anniversary of Nazi Germany's defeat. The soldier had been arrested on...
A new rule announced Thursday by the US Department of Agriculture has opened one third of roadless national forest land - some 58.5 million acres - for road construction, logging, and other commercial purposes in Alaska and...
