Bolivian President Evo Morales told reporters Friday that his government has a desire to "renounce the recourse to war under the Republic of Bolivia's new constitution." Morales made the remarks following a meeting in...
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Friday "after receiving numerous complaints and serious allegations for misconduct, misuse of authority and actions prejudicial to the dignity of office of the Chief...
Portugal's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic , loosened Portugal's strict abortion law Thursday to allow abortions in the first 10-weeks of pregnancy. The legislation still requires the endorsement of President Anibal...
Thomas M. DiBiagio , former US Attorney for the District of Maryland, has said that he was pressured to resign in early 2005 after investigating whether associates of former Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. , a...
The five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is expected to approve the Bush administration's controversial electronic eavesdropping and financial tracking programs when it presents its first report to Congress next week. Three members of the board...
Taiwanese President Chen Shui-Bian has renewed calls for a new constitution for the country, prompting mixed reaction from the United States and mainland China. Speaking Sunday at a banquet hosted by the pro-independence...
Ugandan judges began a week-long general strike Monday to protest last Thursday's siege of the High Court and seizure of defendants by government forces. Court witnesses said that six defendants were rearrested by security forces in court after having...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday that the US House of Representatives' proposed resolution , which urges Japan to apologize to women who were forced into sexual slavery...
Mubarak Hussain bin Abul Hasim, a Bangladeshi who had been detained for five-years at Guantanamo Bay , told AFP following his release from Bangladeshi detention last Thursday that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay gave electric shocks and subjected...
Egyptian judge and president of the judges' syndicate Yahia Ragheb Daqruri said according to a report published Saturday that women cannot serve as judges because it would be against Sharia law . Daqruri's statements, appearing...
