Senate Republicans filed a motion Friday which starts the countdown towards the "nuclear option" - a procedure to wipe out the Democrats' power to block President Bush's judicial nominees. The motion would end the Senate debate for...

Leading Friday's international brief, two recently released polls indicate that popular sentiment is heavily against the proposed EU constitution in the Netherlands . Polls by RTL Television and Centerdata both put the likely "no" vote on...

A US military spokesman, responding to a New York Times article detailing the deaths of two detainees and other abuses, said Friday that mistreatment of detainees in Afghanistan by US personnel will not be tolerated. A White House spokesman...

The French peacekeeping force in Ivory Coast has opened an investigation into allegations that four of its soldiers sexually abused a young girl in the rebel-controlled north. These are the first allegations of sexual abuse to be made against...

US President George W. Bush Friday threatened to veto any legislation that would ease restrictions on federally funded stem cell research . President Bush remarked that he was "a strong supporter of adult stem cell...

Government officials along with survivors paid respects Friday to the victims of the Khmer Rouge "killing fields" during the annual "Day of Anger." Last month the United Nations announced its support for genocide tribunals in Cambodia [press...

The state-run Ethiopia News Agency reported Friday that re-elections will be held Sunday in six polling stations where voting irregularities were found to have occurred. Further charges have been made by both the ruling party and opposition parties...

In a version of a report to be released next Tuesday, Kosovo UN Governor Soren Jessen-Petersen indicates "significant progress" in security and in the area of minority rights under the Kosovo Standards Implementation Plan . Under the...

Former Rwandan mayor Laurent Semanza saw his appeal before the appeals panel of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda dismissed Friday and his prison sentence extended from 25 to 35 years. Semanza, once mayor of Bicumbi...

The US military has strongly condemned a British tabloid's Friday publication of pictures of a semi-clothed Saddam Hussein that it says were taken "in clear violation of directives and possibly Geneva Convention guidelines for the humane...