The Bush administration has asked the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a decision made last year by a US District Court preventing the government from conducting secret searches of communications records. The...
The Johannesburg High Court has banned the release of a newspaper article revealing a corruption scandal involving the nation's ruling African National Congress (ANC) , requiring South Africa's leading independant newspaper, the Mail and Guardian ,...
Former US nuclear weapons workers can soon start filing claims for compensation for exposure to radiation and other industrial toxins while working on cold-war era nuclear weapons. The program details [DOL procedures for filing...
The Bush administration Friday refused a request to extradite Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela, citing inadequate supporting evidence. Carriles is suspected of bombing a plane carrying 73 people to Caracas and has been charged by US authorities...
The former national finance director of the Hillary Rodham Clinton Senate campaign, David Rosen, was acquitted Friday of two counts of making false statements to the Federal Election Commission. Prosecutors argued that Rosen lied to conceal the...
International donors and African countries meet Thursday to discuss increasing their support for the African Union's peacekeeping efforts. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and AU Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré will host the conference, which will bring together officials from the...
Amnesty International Wednesday released its 2005 Report , condemning governments for failing to show principled leadership, betraying promises on human rights, failing to confront their lack of success with fighting terrorism, and persisting with failed but politically...
Indiana governor Mitch Daniels refused to grant clemency or a 90-day stay of execution for Gregory Scott Johnson, a convicted murderer who hoped to give his kidney and liver...
Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), has dropped her plan to use procedural delays to postpone a debate on the nomination of John Bolton to become US Ambassador to the United Nations. Senate Majority leader Bill Frist (R-TN)...
The US House voted 238-194 Tuesday to loosen restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research and the legislation now goes to the Senate, where it has strong bi-partisan support. However, President Bush has promised ...
