National Guard acting adjutant general Brigadier Gen. John R. Alexander has said that a confidential report released Monday proves that the National Guard unit known as the Information Synchronization, Knowledge Management and Intelligence Fusion program was not...

Public commentary on the proposed revisions to Britain's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (1990) began Tuesday, as the government opened up communication for medical professionals and the general public to provide commentary on proposed changes to the...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights , part of the judicial branch of the Organization of American States regional body, has ordered the Suriname government to pay $13,000 (USD) to each of...

Despite initial optimism, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has warned the international community that Cambodia , one of Asia's poorest nations, cannot afford its share of the projected costs for an international criminal tribunal targeting Khmer...

A series of almost simultaneous attacks and riots in seven of Guatemala's prisons Monday has left 31 inmates dead and many more injured. Guatemalan Interior Minister Carlos Vielmann said the gun and knife attacks at prisons around...

In a Tuesday ruling, the Supreme Court of Israel temporarily halted government plans to demolish 30 synagogues and eight Torah academies in the Gaza Strip. The decision was in response to a petition from Elei...

The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has decided to pardon Lena Baker , a black maid, 60 years after she was executed for killing a white man, board spokeswoman Scheree Lipscomb said Monday....

Italy has arrested 141 people in an ongoing security sweep , begun expulsion procedures against 701 people, and questioned almost 33,000 people since last month's terrorist attacks in London and Egypt, Italy's Ministry of the Interior [official website,...

Iraqi leaders confirmed Tuesday that key unresolved issues in drafting the Iraqi constitution lead to Monday's one-week deadline extension . According to Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a Shiite, the primary issues of contention are distribution...

In a 1985 memo to White House counsel Fred Fielding released Monday, US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts stated that the Court's ruling in Wallace v. Jaffree , striking down an Alabama law mandating a one-minute...