Canada's federal government announced Wednesday that it is offering more than $2 billion in compensation to more than 80,000 surviving former First Nations students who may have suffered abuse in native residential schools where they were displaced from their...
A government panel agreed Monday that Japan's succession law should be changed to allow the first-born child, irrespective of gender, the right to ascend to the throne, which would for the first time allow female members of the royal...
French Judge Brigitte Raynaud is in Rwanda investigating accusations that Paris helped a former Hutu government massacre of Tutsis during the 1994 genocide , French Ambassador Dominique Decherf said Tuesday....
German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, head of a UN investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri returned to Lebanon Tuesday as he prepares to close the investigation and prepare a final...
EU states have said they plan to write a joint letter to the US government seeking clarification about whether the US has been running illegal covert prisons in the EU as part of its war on terror....
Kenyans voted Monday in a referendum on a new constitution . Voters came out amid fears that violence might overshadow the voting process, viewed as a dress rehearsal for the 2007 election. The vote...
Frans van Anraat , a Dutch businessman accused of supplying chemical agents to Iraq with the knowledge that Saddam Hussein would use them for poison gas attacks, went on trial Monday in the Netherlands on charges of complicity...
CIA interrogators strictly obey torture laws when trying to obtain information from prisoners, according to CIA Director Porter Goss . In an interview published Monday, Goss told USA Today that the CIA employs "lawful capabilities to collect vital...
Senior US Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) , said Sunday that views expressed by US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito on reapportionment in a 1985 document could have repercussions...
Massachusetts legislators Tuesday rejected a bill 100-53 which proposed the reinstatement of the death penalty. Massachusetts has not used capital punishment since 1947. The bill was proposed in April by Republican Governor Mitt Romney [official...
