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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday said that criminal defamation charges against four critics would be dropped after he received letters from the four apologizing for the incident. Hun Sen faced increasing international...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, the Democratic Republic of Congo will hold the chairmanship of the African Union (AU) for 2006 under an agreement reached by a five-nation panel assigned to develop a compromise to the tense standoff...

A ban on public gatherings, night-time curfews and other restrictions in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal capital, has been lifted by government officials. Nepalese officials have also lifted a ban on mobile phone use and released...

Leading Monday's international brief, the 2006 African Union summit opened Monday in Khartoum, Sudan, with a sharp controversy over the potential chairmanship of the organization by a regime accused of directly contributing to over 300,000 deaths and...

Nepalese police on Saturday used tear gas to disperse protesters gathered to demand democratic reforms in the country after King Gyanendra seized power from the interim government last year. Many of Saturday's protesters threw stones...

US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito on Friday provided additional written answers to questions submitted by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding his views of a variety of legal issues and...

A Chilean appeals court Friday stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity so he can face charges involving the torture of thousands of people at Villa Grimaldi , an infamous political detention center...

JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Henning of Wayne State University Law School says that while lawmakers in Washington are floating new ethics regulations in the wake of the Abramoff lobbying scandal, they might do better to apply existing laws and work...

Carla Del Ponte Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Thursday that former Serbian general and indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic is still...

Egyptian officials have said that 143 Sudanese refugees, detained by Cairo police after a three-month sit-in protest was forcibly broke up, will be released. As many 600 other Sudanese refugees, some of whom hail from the war torn region...