France, Germany and Great Britain, the EU's three major powers, have decided to drop their support for a US-backed draft resolution calling on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to report Iran's nuclear program to the UN...

After months of absolute rule by King Gyanendra , Nepal will move forward with local elections by April 2006 and national elections within two years, Nepalese Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey told...

A Mexican judge on Wednesday refused to issue an arrest warrant for former President Luis Echeverria and seven other officials for a 1968 massacre of student protesters, ending a second attempt by prosecutors to bring...

Christian leaders in Iraq have warned officials that the draft constitution "opens the door widely" to discrimination of religious minorities in the country. Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly of the Chaldeans met with...

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina , local law enforcement and federal agents have expressed increasing concern over the damage the storm wreaked on the New Orleans justice system and how quickly it can recover. Among the...

Expressing concern over the condition of Guantanamo Bay detainees participating in a hunger strike, attorneys for some of the detainees have told District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly that the detainees are in worse condition than the military...

Al Barakaat International Foundation v. Council of the European Union, et al., European Court of First Instance, September 21, 2005 . Read the full text...

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday called on nations to quickly sign and ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty as he opened the fourth conference on bringing the treaty into force....

A grand jury in Philadelphia on Wednesday issued a 418-page report severely criticizing the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for alleged cover-ups of widespread clergy abuses in the Archdiocese over the course of decades, but handed...

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously approved H.R. 3768 , providing $6 billion in temporary tax relief aimed at helping people and organizations hit by Hurricane Katrina . In particular, the legislation...