Rwandan Army Major-General Laurent Munyakazi has been arrested on charges relating to the 1994 Rwandan genocide , a court official said Tuesday. Munyakazi's arrest was ordered by a local gacaca court , a community-based court comprised largely of untrained citizens, and is the first time an officer of such seniority has been detained by a [...]

The final report of the Independent Inquiry Committee investigating the now defunct UN Oil-for-Food program will show that corruption and inefficiencies lead to the program's failure, according to an advanced copy obtained by AP. The report is said to conclude that both the UN Secretariat and the UN Security Council failed to take clear command [...]

Members of the Philippines House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to dismiss all three impeachment charges against Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo , echoing the decision last week of the House Committee on Justice. Arroyo has faced accusations that she rigged last year's election, condoned human rights violations and was involved in corruption. The legislature, [...]

AP is reporting that the Senate will begin confirmation hearings next Monday on the nomination of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the US. The Senate Judiciary Committee was originally scheduled to begin its hearings today on Roberts' nomination to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, but the hearings were postponed after President Bush tapped Roberts [...]

A spokesman for the Independent Egyptian Committee for Monitoring Elections (IECME) alleged Monday that Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) committed more rule violations in campaigning for the upcoming presidential election than any of the other nine parties. According to a preliminary IECME report, NDP, the party of current Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak , received [...]

A former aide to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said Monday that his resignation over the weekend was prompted by corruption within the country's leadership. Former state secretary Oleksandr Zinchenko accused several top presidential aides of corruption, including Petro Poroshenko, who heads the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine , and Mykola Martynenko, leader of [...]

Russian Foreign Ministry officials have said that they oppose referring Iran to the UN Security Council over Iran's continued uranium conversion activities . Moscow released a statement Monday announcing that officials "see no grounds for the referral to the UN Security Council of the question which the IAEA is actively and productively concerned with at [...]

Saddam Hussein met with his Iraqi lawyer Khalil Dulaimi Monday, after Iraqi authorities announced that his first trial before the Iraqi Special Tribunal will begin on October 19 . Hussein faces charges for the 1982 massacre of over 140 Shiites following an assassination attempt on the former dictator's life. Members of Hussein's Jordan-based defense team [...]

Democrats preparing for the upcoming confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts say his nomination as Chief Justice means Roberts should face tougher scrutiny, while Republicans say the elevation should not change the confirmation process. In a statement Monday, Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy said, "Before the Senate acts on John Roberts' new nomination, [...]

A member of the Iraqi constitution drafting committee said Tuesday that the extended negotiations over the final wording of the draft constitution have ended without an agreement on changes to the draft. Iraqi lawmakers had resumed negotiations over the weekend in an attempt to achieve consensus on several issues, including Sunni demands that the constitution [...]