Iran's Interior Ministry Tuesday warned of the danger of fraud in Friday's scheduled run-off presidential vote, with a spokesman referring darkly to "some people who are ready to do anything to stay in power." The...
A federal immigration judge ruled on Monday that John Demjanjuk , who lost his US citizenship for serving as a guard at a concentration camp, can be deported. The case dates back to 1977 [Cleveland Plain...
Luxembourg leaders say they will stick to their original plan for a July 10 referendum on the embattled European Union constitution . Following popular rejection of the charter in France and the Netherlands, seven other European countries...
British Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith Tuesday announced a government plan to abolish jury trials in complicated fraud cases. The move follows the collapse of a fraud trial earlier this year, partly because of jury...
According to documents obtained by the Associated Press Monday, the Transportation Security Administration collected private information about commercial airline passengers who flew in June 2004, despite Congressional instructions not to do so. The documents indicate the information...
A Turkish court sentenced Metin Kaplan Monday to life imprisonment for plotting to kill members of the country's ruling elite by flying a plane into the mausoleum of Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish republic....
The Cambodian government announced Tuesday that it will accept Japan's offer of $11 million to fund a shortfall in the estimated budget for trying former leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime, considered responsible for...
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called for democratic reforms by US allies across the Middle East in a major foreign policy address in Cairo Monday, and publicly called on Saudi Arabia to release...
The California Supreme Court upheld state sentencing guidelines on Monday, ruling that allowing judges to impose a discretionary range of sentences for various crimes did not give them too much power. The ruling follows the recent US...
The International Whaling Commission voted 29-23 against lifting its ban on commercial whaling Tuesday at its 2005 annual meeting . Japan had recently threatened to leave the organization if it didn't allow for some sort...