Iraq's newly-elected parliament will ignore a constitutional provision on setting the date for their first meeting, officials announced Monday. According to the constitution , approved in the 2005 October referendum , parliament is to...

A ban on public gatherings, night-time curfews and other restrictions in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal capital, has been lifted by government officials. Nepalese officials have also lifted a ban on mobile phone use and released...

US President George Bush on Monday defended his authorization of the domestic surveillance program employed by the National Security Agency (NSA) , saying that he was acting under a Congressional mandate to protect the US...

Mikhail Khodorkovsky , the former owner of Russian oil giant Yukos convicted of tax fraud and now incarcerated in a Siberian prison , has appealed to the Russian Supreme...

Russia's most senior judge has predicted that the Kremlin's growing power will eventually result in a dictatorship if it remains unchecked by the country's judiciary. Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Valery...

Jury selection is slated to begin Tuesday in Rio Grande City, Texas, in the latest wrongful death case involving the painkiller Vioxx . The family of Leonel Garza is suing Merck Pharmaceutical...

In a statement issued Monday, Uzbek opposition group Sunshine Uzbekistan called on authorities to hold open proceedings when opposition leader, Sanjar Umarov goes on trial. Umarov, a business man with ties to...

Several family members and former employees of former Chilean president General Augusto Pinochet were indicted Monday on tax evasion charges. Judge Carlos Cerda issued arrest warrants for Pinochet's wife, four of his children, daughter-in-law,...

Six non-US citizens who were arrested and detained on visa violations as "persons of interest" in terror investigations after the Sept. 11 attacks return to the United States this week to give depositions in a lawsuit filed against detention...

Turkish state prosecutors have set January 18, 2010 as the date when Mehmet Ali Agca , the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, will be released from jail. Agca was freed ...