Hammam Hammoudi, head of the drafting committee for the permanent Iraqi constitution , has said that 80% of the draft is completed and he anticipates the August 15 target date will be met with a national ratification...

Legislation to criminalize sexual harassment was presented Sunday to the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress . The draft amendment to the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of...

The Jerusalem District Court Sunday approved the city's annual gay pride parade, clearing the way for an international gay pride event later this summer. The parade, planned for this Thursday, had caused a divide...

Leading Syrian human rights activist Aktham Naisse , was acquitted of all charges by a Syrian State Security Court Sunday. Naisse, chairman of the Committees for the Defense of Democratic Liberties and Human Rights in Syria,...

After visiting the Guantanamo Bay detention center Saturday , House Republicans and Democrats reported that conditions at the facility are improving. The lawmakers traveled to the detention facility to witness interrogations and observe living conditions of the suspected...

Sixteen US House members visited the Guantanamo Bay detention center on Saturday, with a Senate delegation to follow. The trip was planned in response to mounting concerns on both sides of the partisan aisle ...

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani , the relatively-moderate cleric and former president of Iran who lost Friday's run-off election to hardline conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , contended Saturday that there had been...

A bill due to be considered in the Russian state Duma next week would allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to circumvent the two-term limit on presidents set by the Russian Constitution . The legislative amendment...

Afghanistan began to register voters Saturday for the parliamentary elections scheduled for September 18, a day after UN Special Representative Jean Arnault told the UN Security Council that greater security will be necessary to...

An Italian judge ruled Saturday that Calisto Tanzi , founder and CEO of Italian dairy and juice company Parmalat , will stand trial in the $18 billion fraud case that caused the company's downfall. Parmalat Finanziaria SpA admitted...