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US President George W. Bush Thursday announced plans to remove North Korea from a State Department list of terror sponsors . The move comes after the North Korean government presented China with a detailed report...

US Ambassador to Albania John L. Withers colluded with Albanian officials to hide evidence of an illegal ammunition selling plan from New York Times reporters, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Henry Waxman (D-CA) alleged...

The Department of Justice improperly granted preferential treatment to conservative candidates in assessing job and summer internship applications under a 2002 screening program, according to a Tuesday report by the DOJ Office of the Inspector General [official...

Bryan McCann : "When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Baze v. Rees case that Kentucky's lethal injection protocol did not constitute cruel and unusual...

New York Governor David Paterson has ordered all state agencies to recognize same-sex marriages from other states as legal marriages for purposes of New York law. The instructions highlighted in Thursday media reports came...

The upper house of the Austrian parliament Thursday voted 151-27 to approve the EU reform treaty , formally known as the Treaty of Lisbon . The...

South Korean prosecutors on Thursday charged Samsung Chairman and CEO Kun-Hee Lee with breach of trust and tax evasion, but decided not to charge him based on accusations that Samsung maintained a $200 million slush...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Thursday overturned class action certification for a lawsuit brought by "light" cigarette smokers against Philip Morris USA Inc., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and other...

Over 100 protesters rallied near a United Nations facility in Kathmandu on Friday, demonstrating against China's recent crackdown on pro-Tibet protests . Nepalese police arrested around 60 protesters, while about 20 others, reportedly Tibetan high school students, scaled...

Iraq's Presidency Council Wednesday withdrew its objections to a provincial elections law detailing the relationship between Iraq's central and local governments. In a statement issued Wednesday, the three-member Presidency Council, comprised of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Vice...