The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has indicated that the agency will comply with congressional requests to produce documents related to the EPA's decision to deny California's request for a waiver that would have allowed...
A Russian military court in the North Caucasus region sentenced Russian Interior Force officers Yevgeny Khudyakov and Sergei Arakcheyev to 17 and 15 years in prison respectively Thursday for killing three construction workers [International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights...
Israeli military officials said Thursday there was a 36 per cent increase in 2007 of investigations of members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for acts of violence committed against Palestinian civilians. The announcement came a week...
The French Foreign Ministry Thursday formally requested that Chadian authorities transfer six French aid workers to a French prison, one day after the workers were sentenced to eight years of hard labor ...
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide attack Thursday at a rally in Rawalpindi. Bhutto, head of the opposition Pakistan People's Party , was campaigning in the lead-up to...
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be arrested if he returns home from self-imposed exile in England, despite his party's success in general election earlier this week, according to Thai officials Thursday. Thaksin...
Leading legislators from Lebanon's majority party were expected to file a petition in parliament Thursday seeking a constitutional amendment to allow Gen. Michel Suleiman to become president of Lebanon. Under the current Lebanese constitution ,...
Six French aid workers were sentenced to eight years of hard labor Wednesday after being convicted in a Chadian court for attempting to kidnap 103 African children . The six, affiliated with the Zoe's Ark charity,...
Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladmir Vukcevic said Wednesday that fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Ratko Mladic is in Serbia, and that authorities are closing in on him. Vukevic's comments are the first acknowledgement by a...
The Russian Supreme Court has overruled a lower court decision that had held that a new investigation into the activities of Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky ...