New York-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch said Sunday that the presidential election in Iran set for Friday cannot be free and fair because the country's unelected religious authority has approved a narrow list of candidates. A...

The Palestinian National Authority carried out four death sentences Sunday, the first time the Palestinian government had put convicts to death since 2002, when Bashir Atari, 21, was executed by firing squad for cutting the throats of...

Sudan officials announced Sunday that the nation will set up its own court to investigate and prosecute crimes committed during the uprising in Darfur . Last week the Sudan government backed down from...

A Washington Post examination of US Department of Justice terror prosecutions to appear in the paper's Sunday edition shows very little progress in identifying and convicting terrorists since September 11, 2001. In contrast to President Bush's recent claims that...

Iraqi National Security Adviser Muwafaq al-Rubie said Saturday that the trial of former President Saddam Hussein will take place before the currently-scheduled October 15 referendum on the new Iraqi constitution , and that the...

A Iraqi Sunni leader concerned with low Sunni representation on the committee charged with drafting Iraq’s new constitution reiterated Saturday that Sunnis will suspend work on the document if the make-up of the committee is not...

Violence broke out on the streets of the Polish capital Warsaw Saturday when right-wing activists confronted over 2,000 homosexuals marching for gay rights in the predominantly Catholic country. Three people were injured and ten were...

Republican Senator Mel Martinez has become the first major GOP lawmaker to call for the closure of the military terror detention camp at Guantamao Bay . Speaking Friday in Florida, Martinez, a former Secretary of...

Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura has pledged $11 million to fill a funding gap for a tribunal to try former Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide, according to Cambodian government sources. Machimura met with Cambodian Foreign...

Lawyers for former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers filed a motion Friday asking for a lesser sentence for his fraud conviction in March. The motion included support from Ebbers' family members, friends, and former employees in...