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The Turkish parliament, the Grand National Assembly , is scheduled to meet Tuesday, two weeks earlier than usual, to work on passing reform measures aimed at gaining membership to the European Union . The EU has...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has assigned counsel for Vojislav Seselj , ruling that Seselj may not conduct his own defense in his war crimes trial. According to the ICTY...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a controversial law against extremism that a Kremlin statement described as "aimed at improving the definition of extremist activity by classifying socially dangerous actions as extremist." Crimes embraced by the legislation...

A Turkish court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit seeking compensation from novelist Orhan Pamuk , who was sued by six nationalists after he made allegedly unfavorable remarks to a Swiss magazine about Turkey's stance on...

Turkish author and journalist Perihan Magden was acquitted Thursday for defending an objector who was sentenced to four years in prison for refusing to wear his military uniform. The law in Turkey requires any man...

Former US Rep. Bob Barr on Thursday filed a complaint on behalf of Georgia firearms dealer Adventure Outdoors in a Georgia state court alleging that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg violated state...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is silencing dissent by prosecuting journalists under questionable circumstances, a US media watchdog group said Tuesday. The Inter American Press Association is sending an international mission to Venezuela next...

Twenty-five independent and opposition newspapers in Egypt refrained from publishing on Sunday in a pre-planned strike designed to protest the lack of legal protection afforded to journalists as reflected in a draft press law...

The editors of seven independent newspapers in Egypt plan to go on strike Sunday to protest the lack of legal protection afforded to journalists, the independent daily Al-Masry Al-Youm reported Tuesday. The...

The Federation of Arab Journalists (FAJ) on Monday issued a statement declaring its opposition to a draft publications law in Egypt , which the group said politicians could use to stifle journalists with...