The Iraqi government on Monday announced that a nephew of Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to life in prison for providing funding to the insurgency in the country. The verdict was the first against a member...

Building Confidence in US Elections, Commission on Federal Election Reform, September 19, 2005 [final report of the 21-member bipartisan panel chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker, making 87 recommendations for changes to the...

The Israeli Justice Ministry has decided not to charge police for shootings that killed 13 Israeli Arabs during violent protests in October 2000. In closing all investigations stemming from the incident, the Police Investigations Unit on Monday...

The private Commission on Federal Election Reform , a 21-member bipartisan panel headed by former US President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker , recommended Monday that widespread changes be made to...

Four protestors who threw blood on the walls of an army recruitment office in 2003 will face trial in a federal court in Monday on charges of damaging government property and conspiracy to impede an officer of...

North Korea agreed Monday to abandon its nuclear weapons programs and return to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as the latest round of six-party talks between North Korea, China, Japan, South Korea,...

Israeli officials announced Sunday that they will urge Britain to restrict laws which allow private war crimes suits to be filed against foreign citizens. The request was prompted by an incident last week where Doron Almog, former commander of...

The Supreme Court of Nepal ordered Sunday that the Royal Commission for Corruption Control, under the control of King Gyanendra , explain the detention of former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba within...

Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, president of the Vatican's health department, said Sunday that Italian proposals to give legal status to unmarried couples are a threat to traditional families. A "traditional" family is held by the Vatican to be a...

UN leaders at the 60th General Assembly session now underway in New York in the aftermath of the 2005 World Summit are pressing for agreement on a definition of terrorism and are calling for a broad international...