Turkish-Armenian author Hrant Dink, journalist and editor of the newspaper Agos , was shot and killed Friday in Istanbul. Dink was one of several writers to have been charged recently with "insulting the Turkish identity" in...
Speaker of the US House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) committed House Democrats to joining the Senate Democrats Thursday in supporting nonbinding legislation declaring that "it is not in the national interest of the United States to deepen...
Somalia's transitional parliament voted Saturday to authorize the government to declare martial law in the troubled east African country. The authorization and the accompanying declaration of a state of emergency followed Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Ghedi's Thursday...
China and Russia Friday vetoed a proposed UN Security Council resolution demanding an end to political repression and human rights violations in Myanmar . The resolution was jointly sponsored by the United...
US District Judge Claude M. Hilton of the Eastern District of Virginia Friday granted a motion for dismissal made by the New York Times in a defamation suit filed against the paper by Dr. Stephen J. Hatfill...
Bryan Wagner, the private investigator involved in the Hewlett-Packard corporate spying scandal pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges of conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Wagner was accused of using used the social security...
Peruvian president Alan Garcia Thursday proposed a national referendum on introducing capital punishment for convicted terrorists after a legislative proposal to that effect was defeated 49-26 in the...
The French Court of Cassation , the country's highest court on civil and criminal affairs, has ruled that a war crimes investigation against Republic of Congo (ROC) President Denis Sassou Ngusseo ...
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Thursday that Germany would place a high emphasis on containing illegal immigration originating from North Africa and Eastern Europe during the six-month German presidency of the EU. Schaeuble is...
An Iraqi government spokesman said Sunday that the execution orders for two of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants, former chief judge of Iraq's Hussein-era Revolutionary Court Awad Hamed al-Bandar and former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti [GlobalSecurity profile;...
