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Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon was formally sworn in as President of Mexico in a hasty ceremony before the Mexican Congress Friday after a midnight swearing in...

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf signed new legislation Friday allows rape cases to be tried in either secular or Islamic courts, reduces the evidentiary burden necessary for conviction, and substitutes a fine and five-year prison term...

Nepal's House of Representatives Sunday passed a citizenship bill granting opportunity to apply for citizenship to an estimated four million people living in the Terai region along the country's southern border with India. The bill declares that individuals born...

A Yemeni court has convicted Kamal al-Aalafi, editor-in-chief of the al-Rai al-Aam newspaper, and sentenced him to one year in jail for violating Article 103 of the Press and Publications Law of 1990 ...

The government of Rwanda cut diplomatic ties with France Friday in protest at a French judge's recommendation that Rwandan President Paul Kagame face trial in connection with the 1994 downing of a plane carrying then-President...

Some 25,000 Rwandans gathered in a sports stadium in the capital Kigale Thursday to protest a French judge's issuance of arrest warrants for nine top Rwandan officials on suspicion of involvement in the 1994 downing of the plane carrying...

Supreme Court offices in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be decentralized and spread to various parts of the capital city of Kinshasa, or even to other Congolese cities, following fire damage to one-third of the...

Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and Maoist rebel leader Prachanda signed a peace agreement Tuesday formally ending the decade-long Maoist guerilla insurgency against the government that left over 13,000 people dead....

The Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Kinhasa was set on fire Tuesday by protestors supporting Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba , who on Saturday filed a challenge [JURIST...

A draft UN General Assembly resolution condemning human rights violations in Uzbekistan has been blocked in the General Assembly's Third Committee by a group of mainly developing nations that claim...