Four of the fired US Attorneys were dismissed after Republican officials complained they were lax in prosecuting alleged voter fraud in battleground states before the November 2006 elections, the Washington Post reported Monday. Documents and interviews...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan Monday adjourned the hearing of petitions filed by suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry after Justice Falak Sher, one of the fourteen justices on the...

The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the arrest of prominent Iranian-American scholar Dr. Haleh Esfandiari Sunday, saying that Esfandiari's arrest was "based on law" but did not elaborate on the reason for the arrest....

The Iraqi Interior Ministry said Sunday that it will no longer allow news photographers or cameramen at the scenes of bomb attacks. Brigadier General Abdel-Karim Khalaf, head of the ministry's national operations center, told AFP that...

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that a US district judge did not abuse his discretion in refusing to allow an Arizona death row inmate to pursue an ineffective assistance of counsel claim after...

Leadership within the Communist Party of Nepal - Maoists (CPN-M) has called on Nepal's interim parliament to immediately declare the country a federal democratic republic. CPN-M leadership formed a human protest chain through the parliament building on...

Joram Gumbo, a Zimbabwean delegate to the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) and member of the ruling party of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe , expressed outrage and contempt Sunday for the African organization's decision to send...

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has signed legislation making English the official state language. The bill , which was signed Friday and takes effect July 1, also gives state and local governments the discretion...

Japan's House of Councillors , the upper house of the National Diet, approved legislation Monday establishing procedures to facilitate a national constitutional referendum. The legislation requires a three-year public consultation period before parliament can...

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf traded barbs and accusations with opponents over the weekend after 39 people were killed Saturday in Karachi in clashes sparked by the arrival of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry [official profile; JURIST...