A North Caucasus District military court has found a group of a special forces soldiers in the Russian military not guilty in the 2002 murder of six Chechen civilians . The troops admitted to killing the civilians...
According to a court filing by his attorneys, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali , a Virginia man accused of conspiring to assassinate President Bush and supporting al-Qaida , was tortured while in Saudi custody. Defense attorneys cited the...
The main opposition parties in Ivory Coast signed a deal Wednesday in Paris ahead of the general elections to be held later this year. The prospective alliance would see a distribution of power between the opposition groups if current...
A Palestinian court has thrown out election result in parts of Rafah , a town in the Gaza Strip where Hamas had made a strong showing. Supporters of the Fatah movement, led by President Mahmoud...
Cambodia's National Assembly came to an agreement with the US government Wednesday regarding the nonsurrender of current or former US government officials and employees to the International Criminal Court . The US Embassy in Phnom Penh...
British Prime Minister Tony Blair unveiled a new plan Tuesday to introduce national ID cards for the first time since World War II. The proposed ID cards, which would carry biometric details such as fingerprints...
A Spanish judge indicted 13 suspected Islamic militants Wednesday on charges of forming terror cells in the al Qaeda network. The men, mostly Moroccan, were arrested in raids last October when Spanish police claim to have stopped the suspects...
Senate Republicans picked Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown in the battle with Democrats over nominations to the federal judiciary. Owen is set to be renominated Wednesday with...
The three main opposition parties in Egypt, the moderate-left Wafd , Marxist Tagamu , and the Nasserist Party have joined forces to voice their opposition to a May 25 referendum...
The future of a work-in-progress bill to provide $140 billion in asbestos compensation was threatened Tuesday by a looming battle between Republicans and Democrats over judicial nominations. Senators moved a Wednesday Senate Judiciary...
