Kurdish legislators staged a walkout of the Iraqi Parliament Tuesday, delaying a vote on a proposed provincial election bill that they say is unconstitutional. Kurdish lawmakers objected to an attached proposal that would establish a provincial council...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington , seeking to revoke the US citizenship of an alleged World War...

Malaysian authorities arrested opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim Wednesday afternoon, less than a day after a warrant was issued for his arrest on sodomy allegations made against him by a former aide. According...

The US Congress enacted a new Medicare law on Tuesday to cut Medicare expenditures by reducing Medicare payments made to insurance companies rather than those made to doctors. President George W. Bush vetoed the bill,...

The Seoul Central District Court Wednesday suspended a three-year prison sentence for former Samsung Chairman and CEO Kun-Hee Lee , who was convicted of tax fraud. The court ruled that Lee should not serve prison time...

The Spanish Senate voted Wednesday to ratify the new EU reform treaty , also known as the Treaty of Lisbon . Jose Manuel Barroso , the president of the European Commission,...

A Chinese office manager has become the first man to be imprisoned under a Chinese sexual harassment law passed in 2005, according to reports on Wednesday. Previous cases brought under the law have been settled through civil...

Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri and Mark A. Berman v. Commander John Pucciarelli, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, July 15, 2008 [ruling that the President is empowered by Congress to hold enemy combatants in military prison...

The Massachusetts Senate passed a bill Tuesday to repeal a 1913 law which bars people from marrying in Massachusetts if their own state would not recognize such a union. The statute gained attention because it would...

Canada transferred US Army deserter Robin Long back to US custody Tuesday following a decision by the Federal Court of Canada denying his asylum request. Long is the first of an estimated 200 US military personnel avoiding...