The Parliament of the Georgian Republic voted Friday to approve a 15-day state of emergency imposed by President Mikhail Saakashvili earlier this week. Opposition members boycotted the vote and the measure passed the 235-seat assembly...

Three Spanish air crew and a Belgian pilot held in Chad in connection with a French charity's attempt to airlift 103 children alleged to be Darfur orphans were released Friday. Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos...

Former federal judge Michael B. Mukasey was sworn in Friday as the 81st attorney general of the United States after a confirmation process fraught with controversy. The US Senate voted 53-40 late...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Friday accused his opposition of using "fascist violence" to oppose constitutional changes that would eliminate presidential term limits and augment the president's emergency powers. Earlier this month, the Venezuelan National Assembly approved [press...

United Nations General Secretary Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday called on nations, organizations and individuals to respect laws passed for the protection of children . Ban's comments come in the wake of an unsuccessful bid by a French charity...

The government of Norway Friday proposed creating laws to allow for the prosecution of war crimes, genocide and terrorism. Current Norwegian law does not specifically include these offenses, and it is standard policy to turn over...

The man who shot and paralyzed former Alabama Governor George Wallace in 1972 was released from a Maryland prison Friday. Under the conditions set by the state for the release of Arthur Bremer [PBS...

California filed a lawsuit Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in an effort to force the EPA to come to a...

US District Judge Benjamin Settle issued a preliminary injunction Thursday against holding a second court-martial for Iraq war objector 1st Lt. Ehren Watada until he resolves whether a second court-martial constitutes double...

A federal judge Thursday issued an injunction suspending a Washington state law that would require pharmacists to dispense Plan B emergency contraceptives , the so-called "morning-after pill." US District Judge Ronald Leighton's injunction effectively creates a...