South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Wednesday that the US Senate should quickly pass a proposed bill designed to combat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria because it would save lives and encourage...
The US Supreme Court handed down five decisions Thursday, including MetLife v. Glenn , in which the Court ruled 6-3 that an employee benefit plan administrator has an illegal conflict...
Mexico has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for assistance in stopping the Texas executions of five of its citizens, including Jose Ernesto Medellin , who is scheduled to be executed August...
The Swedish parliament Wednesday passed a controversial warrantless wiretapping law that gives the country's National Defence Radio Establishment broad authority to monitor international telephone and electronic communications passing through the country. The bill,...
The status of more than 1,000 protesters detained by Chinese authorities during March demonstrations in Tibet remains unknown, according to an Amnesty International report released Wednesday. About 370 of the protesters who surrendered...
Canada classified the World Tamil Movement (WTM) as a terrorist organization Tuesday , according to comments by Canadian Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day . Day characterized the group as a front for...
Burundi military officials Wednesday announced the arrests of nearly 100 members of the Forces for National Liberation (FNL) , a Hutu separatist group engaged in an ongoing conflict with the Burundian government. The FNL denied accusations ...
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that the state had settled with two law firms accused of defrauding the state pension system. For years the two firms, Girvin & Ferlazzo, PC and Hogan,...
Bulgarian officials said Wednesday that they had frozen 10 National Road Infrastructure Fund projects worth almost 90 million euros ($137 million) in order to avoid possible sanctions for using the money inappropriately. The funds are mostly grants from...
US President George W. Bush vetoed the new Farm Bill for the second time on Wednesday, saying that the proposed legislation was fiscally irresponsible. The original version of the text sent to...