In addition to the deals currently being finalized between the United States and the governments of Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, the US is negotiating with 10 more Muslim countries to return their citizens held at Guantanamo...
In a clash of opposing viewpoints, a group of strongly conservative Iraqi women Tuesday confronted a sit-in by their liberal counterparts in Baghdad's Firdous Square as the August 15 deadline for the country's constitution nears. The liberal secularists were...
The Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday proposed new radiation exposure limits for the Yucca Mountain waste dump project with the goal of ensuring a safe public site for hundreds of thousands of years. The...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales addressed lawyers attending the annual meeting of the American Bar Association Monday, arguing for support of several controversial legal issues on the Bush administration's agenda. Gonzales urged the group to...
A key suspect believed to be connected to the abduction and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl was brought before a civil court Tuesday in the city of Karachi, Pakistan. Mohammad Hashim Qadir was held in connection...
President George W. Bush Monday signed into law a massive energy bill while in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The 1,725-page legislation , finalized after weeks of compromise between the US House and Senate , provides $14.5 billion...
A Yemeni court on Monday sentenced six men to jail for planning to blow up the British and Italian embassies and the French cultural center in Sanaa. The six men, believed to be members of al Qaeda, received sentences...
Officials in Qatar on Monday launched a new human rights department which will function as a branch of the country's Interior Ministry . The department will work closely with the National Human Rights Committee, a state-financed...
In a speech to the American Bar Association annual meeting in Chicago this weekend, US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens noted "serious flaws'' in the American capital punishment system, though he stopped short of...
Sixty years after deadly atomic blasts hit the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , thousands rallied across the US over the weekend to call for a ban on nuclear weapons. Protesters gathered in New Mexico, Tennessee, California,...
