Lawyers for victims of Hurricane Katrina Monday asked for an extension of a program which houses displaced New Orleans residents in hotels at government expense, at an estimated $3 million per day, totaling $300 million since...
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said Monday that Croatia may cease to function as a state if the government returns property to Austrian citizens that had been confiscated by Yugoslav communists after World War II as...
Documents released Monday by the US Justice Department show that Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. was actively involved in efforts to expand law enforcement powers while employed as a deputy assistant...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday suspended primary elections of his ruling Fatah movement amid election fraud said to be prevalent in Gaza and the West Bank. Primaries in the Gaza Strip were cancelled...
President George W. Bush Monday called for more stringent Mexican border controls and rejected the idea that his immigration proposals would allow amnesty for illegal immigrants, while at the same time vowing to keep the US "a welcoming...
Aung San Suu Kyi , the detained pro-democracy leader of Myanmar - formerly Burma - has had her house arrest extended for an unconfirmed time period by the countrys military government, according to a...
Senegal's foreign minister said Sunday that former Chad dictator Hissene Habre , wanted in Belgium for alleged human rights abuses committed during his 1982-90 rule of the north-central African nation, will have his fate decided by...
Viveca Novak, a TIME magazine reporter who covered the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity, has been asked to testify by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald in the leak investigation which is now...
The trial of Saddam Hussein resumed Monday, but was quickly adjourned until December 5 to allow two of Hussein's co-defendants, including former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, to find replacements for members of the defense team...
Michael Rigas, the former executive vice president of Adelphia Communications Corp. and son of founder John Rigas pleaded guilty in Manhattan Wednesday to falsifying a financial record. His plea negates the need for retrial on other charges...
