A prominent French Socialist Party (PS) leader called Sunday for France to recognize its crimes in colonial Algeria , including the alleged massacres of 45,000 Algerians demanding independence at the end of World War II,...

Kuwaiti draft legislation broadening women's rights was approved by a parliamentary panel Sunday and will likely be debated in the house in the next two months. The panel's head, MP Saleh Ashour [Kuwait Politics Database profile, in English and...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad introduced Gholam Hossein Elham as his candidate for justice minister to the parliament Sunday. Elham, a strong supporter of Ahmadinejad, currently works as official spokesperson for the...

Australian Prime Minister John Howard spoke out Sunday in support of the Pentagon's decision to recharge 31-year-old David Hicks , the single Australian terror suspect at Guantanamo Bay , notwithstanding US inclusion of...

Bangladeshi security forces picked up 13 ex-ministers and senior politicians from their homes in raids in Dhaka Sunday. The government cited recently-promulgated emergency powers as the basis for the detentions. Bangladesh country has been in political...

Former US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor made her decision to step down in July 2005 after consulting with then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist , according to a Newsweek interview [text; press...

House Page Board Revision Act of 2007, White House, February 3, 2006 [bill signed by US President George W. Bush to help monitor US congressional pages by expanding the supervisory House Page Board to include a former page and a...

The head of the UN Mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) expressed concern Saturday about increased human rights violations by security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo , particularly those in...

US President George W. Bush signed a bill Friday to help monitor US congressional pages by expanding the supervisory House Page Board to include a former page and a current or former page's parent....

The governor of Texas signed an executive order Friday making that state the first to require that girls be vaccinated for human papilloma virus (HPV) , which is the primary cause of cervical...