Kidnappers of Iraqi lawmaker demand release of Shiite prisoners, US withdrawal
The supposed abductors of Sunni Iraqi legislator Tayseer al-Mashhadani have offered to release her in exchange for the release of all Shiite detainees, a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops, and an end to all attacks on Shiite...
Egypt dailies plan strike to protest draft publications bill
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...
Bolivians voted Sunday to elect 255 delegates to a special assembly that will rewrite the countrys constitution and decide whether to entrench greater power in the states or in the national government. The Movement Toward Socialism...
Paris marchers protest stricter immigration law after parliament passage
Thousands of Parisians marched through the city Saturday in a protest against a contentious new immigration law passed by the French Parliament Friday. The new law...
Former Mexican president Luis Echeverria was under house arrest Saturday after a Mexican appeals court ruled Friday that it had enough evidence to charge him with genocide in connection with his role in putting...
UN rights council votes to review Israel rights record at every session
The new Human Rights Council of the United Nations voted Friday to review alleged human rights abuses by Israel in all future council sessions, a move which was protested by both...
California AG slams state security office for tracking antiwar protestors
A spokesman for California Attorney General Bill Lockyer Friday criticized the California State Office of Homeland Security for tracking antiwar protests over the past few months, calling it a violation of civil liberties. Reports obtained...
Israel AG says arrested Hamas leaders won't be held as unlawful combatants
Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz has said that a group of two dozen Hamas MPs and ministers who were detained Thursday will not be held in administrative detention under the Incarceration of Unlawful...
Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has said that the ruling coalition government in the Netherlands will resign Friday after losing the support of one of the parties making up the coalition due to the...
Indonesia is preparing to execute three men convicted in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings , a spokesman from the Indonesian Attorney General's office said Wednesday. Under Indonesian law, spokesman Wayan Pasek Suarte could not disclose the location or...
