Robert Parton, who resigned last month as senior investigative counsel for the Independent Inquiry Committee into the defunct UN Oil-for-Food Program , has handed over potentially incriminating documents to a US congressional committee. The...
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled Friday that FCC regulations prohibiting the manufacture of video and computer hardware without broadcast flag anti-piracy technology are invalid. The court said:The broadcast...
A Spanish judge has charged 11 additional suspects with participating in the Madrid commuter train bombings that in March 2004 killed 191 and injured 1,900, bringing the total charged up to 101 people. Included in Thursday's indictment is Driss...
A poll of 2700 Iraqis released Friday reports that three out of four citizens believe that Islam should be a primary source of Iraqi law and legislation, with only two percent of respondents believing that religion...
Despite a low 61% turnout and an undisputed third-term victory for Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labour Party in Thursday's UK election, officials from the UK Electoral Commission [official...
President Bush and visiting Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo discussed how indicted ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor might be brought to trial during a meeting Thursday at the White House. Taylor, now in exile in Nigeria, has been charged...
Nepalese political leaders and rights activists Friday condemned the bringing of corruption charges against former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, with the head of Nepal's Informal Sector Service Center calling the royal anti-graft commission a...
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a report released Thursday that an increase in allegations of sexual abuse against UN peacekeepers and related staff is "deeply troubling," but may be related to "the newly...
The US Army has announced that President Bush Thursday approved the demotion of Brigadier General Janis Karpinski to colonel, effectively ending her military career. Karpinski, the former commanding officer at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, had...
Members of the family of Emmett Till , a 14-year-old black youngster killed after whistling at a white woman in 1955, are vehemently opposing the FBI's plan to exhume the boy's body . Two suspects in the...