Mehmet Ali Agca , the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, may face new charges in Turkey of draft dodging and escaping military custody after he is released from prison...
General Sir Michael Rose , a retired British military leader and the former UN military commander in Bosnia, has said that UK Prime Minister Tony Blair should be impeached for making the decision...
Three leading Republican senators, John W. Warner (R-VA) , John McCain (R-AZ) , and Lindsey O. Graham (R-SC) , on Wednesday condemned President Bush's statement that he can bypass the newly-passed ban on torture...
The Palestinian Election Commission (CEC) , an independent commission that supervises elections in the Palestinian Authority , resigned Thursday in protest of the government's decision to allow 60,000 security forces to cast votes in...
US Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) , the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee , told President Bush in a letter Wednesday that the White House violated the National Security Act when it withheld information pertaining...
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi defended his annual visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine Wednesday, and condemned Chinese and South Korean leaders who refused to meet with him because he commemorates Japanese veterans from World War...
A federal judge Wednesday rejected the US government's argument that revealing the names of hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees violates their privacy, and remanded the case for further consideration on whether to actually release the names....
Russian officials on Saturday charged former Russian nuclear minister Yevgeny Adamov with fraud and abuse of power, possibly stemming from US charges pending against him. Adamov was extradited from Switzerland to Russia ,...
A federal judge on Friday granted a request by John W. Hinckley, Jr. , who shot President Ronald Reagan and 3 others in 1981 , for seven overnight visits with his parents in their home in Williamsburg, Virginia,...
President George W. Bush on Friday signed a $453.3 billion defense spending bill which contains provisions banning the cruel and inhumane treatment of detainees in US custody, but also eliminates the ability of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST...
