AP is reporting tha President Bush will not pick a US Supreme Court nominee to replace retiring justice Sandra Day O'Connor before he returns from the G8 summit in Europe July 8, according to the White House....
The UN is planning to send an investigator to Japan next week to look into charges of racism and discrimination against ethnic minority groups in the country, including ethnic Koreans and Chinese, according to a statement by the Office...
AP is reporting that Sandra Day O'Connor , first woman justice on the US Supreme Court, has announced her plans to retire . Read the text of Justice O'Connor's letter of resignation addressed to President...
Ukrainian authorities said Thursday that they have discovered who was behind the assassination attempt by poisoning directed at President Viktor Yushchenko and have traced the substance used in the plot to a facility housing...
Of the 15 Sunni Muslims joining members of the committee to construct Iraq's new constitution , two are accused of being former senior members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party while two others have indicated that...
The European Commission on Thursday published a proposal to create a European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights . The proposal comes in the wake of an Amnesty International report urging Great Britain's incoming EU...
In a White House interview with Danish television that aired Thursday, US President George W. Bush said that agreeing to the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change would have "wrecked" the US...
Nigeria's Supreme Court Friday turned back a challenge to the legitimacy of the 2003 election victory of President Olusegun Obasanjo , affirming a lower court ruling and putting an end to a lawsuit over alleged vote...
Ismail Hussain, a defendant in the forgery trial of Egyptian presidential candidate Ayman Nour , on Thursday changed his plea to not guilty, saying he earlier made a false confession, acknowledging forging signatures under pressure from...
Ohio Governor Bob Taft Thursday vetoed as too restrictive a ban on using funds from a high-tech job initiative to pay for embryonic stem cell research. Taft said that the ban...
