Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment removing term limits on his own presidency. The measure, which only applies to Nazarbayev, was proposed by the president last week and was approved ...

The Philippines' Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Tuesday stopped the counting of last week's votes for congressional candidates in the southern province of Maguindanao to investigate allegations of fraud. Early reports of voter intimidation and vote-rigging...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko asked a lower court in Kiev Tuesday to block the Constitutional Court of Ukraine from ruling on his April 2 decree dissolving parliament ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held hearings Tuesday on California's request for a waiver of preemption for its greenhouse gas emission standards for new cars. The standards would require car manufacturers to cut emissions...

Thousands of farmers in southwestern China reportedly rioted over the weekend due to efforts by local government officials to more strictly enforce China's "One Child Policy" . A local resident told AP said that the government had imposed fines...

Lawyers for former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra Tuesday threatened to bring a lawsuit against a committee investigating Thaksin's alleged corruption if it releases details of a report into a controversial land purchase [Wikipedia...

Chung Mong-koo , chairman of Hyundai Motors Group , pressed an appeal of his February 5 conviction for embezzlement and bribery Tuesday by submitting a written "pledge" to the Seoul High Court, hoping to obtain...

Members of the committee responsible for developing reforms to Iraq's constitution said Tuesday that, after six months of negotiations, they have been unable to reach any sort of agreement. The panel made up of Shiites, Sunnis,...

Moroccan police arrested three leading human rights activists and attempted to arrest three others in the disputed Western Sahara region Sunday amid a crackdown before scheduled talks with pro-independence factions next month. Brahim...

A Manhattan federal jury Monday convicted Dr. Rafik Abdus Sabir, a US citizen with a medical practice based in Florida, of conspiracy to provide material support to al Qaeda and attempting to provide that support. Sabir was...