Sunni Arabs on Tuesday said that partial results released earlier this week in Iraq's parliamentary elections were a "falsification of the will of the people" and said that there was abundant evidence of fraud. Preliminary results...

Top Senate Democrats have said that they never approved or were fully briefed on the National Security Agency's post-September 11th domestic surveillance program . President Bush has vigorously defended the program, which monitors international communications of people in...

Case Concerning Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda), International Court of Justice, December 19, 2005 [ruling that Uganda violated the sovereignty of the Democratic Republic of Congo during a 1998-2003 war...

Second report of the International Independent Investigation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolutions 1595 (2005) and 1636 (2005), December 12, 2005 [latest report of the probe headed by Detlev Mehlis looking into the February 14, 2005 bombing in Beirut...

Manfred Nowak, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Torture , has called for Germany to prosecute the Uzbek Minister of Internal Affairs, Zokirjon Almatov, for his handling of the May 2005 Andijan uprising . A group of survivors...

Kizza Besigye , Uganda's jailed opposition leader, and 22 co-defendants pleaded not guilty Monday to treason charges for which they face the death penalty. Besigye has also been accused of rape and he pleaded not guilty...

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Monday that he will continue with democratic reforms in Egypt and pledged to work with opposition to move "forward on the path of democracy." Mubarak's address to parliament follows several...

President Bush on Monday slammed the Senate's failure to renew the USA Patriot Act as "inexcusable," saying the legislation is a crucial part of the government's efforts to prevent future terror attacks....

The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported Monday that the US murder rate rose 2.1 percent during the first six months of 2005, though rates for other significant offenses, such as rape and arson, are on...

The International Court of Justice , ruled Monday that Uganda violated the sovereignty of the Democratic Republic of Congo during a 1998-2003 war and was responsible for human rights abuses and the plundering of Congolese natural...