Turkey's broadcasting watchdog urged a boycott Wednesday of French television programs and movies to protest the French parliament's approval of a bill that criminalizes denial of an Armenian genocide . The board...

Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo Thursday declared a state of emergency in the Nigerian state of Ekiti after Governor Ayodele Fayose was impeached by state lawmakers earlier this week following his conviction for corruption...

A former guard at the Nazi Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria has been released from a Michigan jail after Germany, Romania and Hungary all refused to take custody of him, according to a spokesman for the US...

The United States Marshall's Services Management of the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System, US Department of Justice, October 18, 2006 [concluding that the air transportation system used by the federal government to deport illegal immigrants and transfer federal prisoners...

In a joint news conference Wednesday with Moqtada al-Sadr , a militant Shiite cleric and head of the Mehdi Army militia, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki expressed hope for speedy proceedings against former president Saddam Hussein...

Members of an Ethiopian inquiry team charged with investigating violent mass demonstrations following the May 2005 elections and separate protests about ballot fraud in November 2005 announced Wednesday that 193 civilians were killed by Ethiopian...

A US district court judge from the Northern District of Texas has ruled that the one-year statute of limitations for bringing libel suits in Texas applies equally to articles posted on the Internet and articles in print....

A military court in Jordan found eight Islamic militants guilty Wednesday of plotting to attack Americans and Israelis in Jordan and of planning to kill US forces being trained in both Jordan and Iraq. The convicted...

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet told federal judge Alejandro Solis during a meeting Wednesday that he neither participated in nor was aware of the torture of thousands of citizens at Villa Grimaldi prison [Wikipedia...

A civil court in Berlin Wednesday dismissed two claims against a German distributor of the drug Vioxx , manufactured by US pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co. , citing plaintiffs' failures in both cases to demonstrate a...