A US federal prosecutor said Friday that proceeding with a US trial of former Russian nuclear energy minister Yevgeny Adamov on charges of fraud, money laundering, and tax evasion for diverting to his own...

Bancoult v. McNamara, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, April 21, 2006 [ruling that the federal courts were not authorized to grant compensation to the Chagossians, a group of Indian Ocean islanders forced from their...

The Libyan retrial of five Bulgarian nurses accused of infecting over 400 patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus is scheduled to begin on May 11 in Tripoli, Bulgaria’s foreign ministry announced Saturday....

A presidential doctor in Indonesia Saturday declared former dictator General Suharto still unfit to stand trial, as he suffers from permanent brain damage and cannot have a logical conversation. Recently renewed efforts to have...

Iraq President Jalal Talabani formally designated hardline Shiite politician Jawad al-Maliki to form a new government Saturday, giving him 30 days to present his Cabinet to Parliament for approval. Shiites nominated al-Maliki on Friday after...

An Italian appeals court on Saturday certified the final Senate votes in Italy’s disputed April 9-10 election , confirming a narrow two-seat majority for Romano Prodi in the upper house ...

Nepalese security forces fired rubber bullets and live rounds on tens of thousands of pro-democracy protestors in Kathmandu Saturday, injuring many demonstrators as they marched toward the palace of King Gyanendra just...

Shirin Ebadi , the Iranian human rights lawyer and activist who won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize , said Friday that Iran would defend itself against any American attack, insisting at a...

The US Department of Justice signed off on a new Georgia law Friday that will require voters to present a valid photo ID when they vote in elections. Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue [official...

State prison administrators carried out the execution of Willie Brown, Jr. on Friday morning at the Central Prison in Raleigh, North Carolina. During the execution procedure Brown had a brain-wave monitor attached to him to...