The Egyptian government does not plan to allow the Muslim Brotherhood to become a legal political party even though it has so far won 76 of 444 seats by running candidates as independents in the three-phase Egyptian...
The Texas Supreme Court Tuesday declared a statewide property tax unconstitutional because it sets a cap limit that most school districts are at or near already. The ruling partly affirmed and partly reversed a prior decision...
The US Education Department on Tuesday planned to send to states initiatives easing some requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) , which educators have...
Iraqs government announced plans on Tuesday to investigate allegations that Iraqi security forces abused more than 170 prisoners held in central Baghdad, who were found malnourished and showing evidence of torture. Prompted by the repeated pleadings of a missing...
France's National Assembly , the lower house of parliament, on Tuesday voted to extend emergency powers originally granted for 12 days on November 8 to combat the civil unrest that started in late October....
Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture , on Tuesday called for unrestricted inspections of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay . The UN plans to send inspectors to Guantanamo on December 6 for a...
The Pentagon has said it will not seek the death penalty against Omar Ahmed Khadr , an 18-year-old Canadian citizen detained at Guantanamo Bay who admitted throwing a grenade that killed...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has called for global cooperation in the arrest of five members of Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) , during a report Tuesday...
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , the indicted former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, has established a fund to help pay for his defense against criminal charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in the investigation...
Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups Wednesday filed a joint petition demanding that the Israeli Air Force stop causing sonic booms over Gaza, calling supersonic flights over the area collective punishment against the civilian population in a...
