The US Senate voted Wednesday against a motion to advance legislation that would permit the Department of Health and Human Services or another federal government entity to intervene in Medicare drug pricing negotiations between...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Tennessee Secondary Schools Athletic Assn. v. Brentwood Academy , 06-427, in which the Court considered whether the TSSAA...

More than 100 Afghanistan journalists gathered in front of parliament on Wednesday to protest a Tuesday police raid on Afghanistan's largest TV network and call for the resignation of Afghan Attorney General Abdul Jabar Sabit. Sabit ordered the raid...

A Pakistani citizen who says he has been detained in a secret facility for 18 months in connection with the CIA's extraordinary rendition program will challenge his detention in the Pakistani Supreme Court, Amnesty International (AI)...

EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini announced Tuesday that he will propose strengthening Eurojust , the European Commission's judicial cooperation unit, to facilitate communication between prosecutors in member states where criminal activities cross borders. Frattini also suggested...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 . In Gonzales v. Carhart , the Court held that groups challenging...

The Iraqi National Assembly will meet next week to consider a draft oil law regulating the development and distribution of Iraqi oil and giving the national government control over oil revenues, Iraqi Oil...

Opposition leader and former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed has been exiled from Bangladesh by President Iajuddin Ahmed's emergency government, according to a Bangladeshi Ministry of Home Affairs statement confirmed to...

Protests delayed a Wednesday Ukrainian Constitutional Court hearing to determine the legality of the April 2 decree by Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko that ordered parliament dissolved and new elections held. Riot police...

The Somali transitional government dismissed former parliamentary speaker Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden and 29 other parliamentary members on Tuesday in what is purported to be an attempt to consolidate the government's power over the legislature....