China executed two members of the Chinese Uighur Muslim ethnic minority last week, according to a report from US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA) . According to the report , the two Uighurs, Mukhtar Setiwalki...
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday told members of the Russian lower house of parliament, the State Duma , that he will sign newly-prepared anti-corruption legislation in the near future. Medvedev,...
Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution Friday which would have imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe . The three other permanent members of the Security Council, the US, Britain...
The Office of the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) filed a petition Friday asking the ICC to lift an indefinite stay on the trial of Congolese ex-militia leader Thomas Lubanga...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have the authority to institute a "cap-and-trade" policy for controlling levels...
International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will seek a warrant to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir , according to statements made Friday by US State Department...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday in Charron v. Amaral that couples married after the court's decision legalizing same-sex marriage cannot make claims for benefits they would have received had they been allowed to...
The UN said Friday that it had reached a "broad understanding" with Pakistan on logistical issues and questions of access to government officials central to a potential investigation into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir...
The Flemish Parliament approved the new EU reform treaty Friday, finalizing Belgian approval of the document, also known as the Treaty of Lisbon . Jose Manuel Barroso ,...
A judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Friday sentenced a former US Department of Defense (DOD) official to almost five years in prison for disclosing national defense information...
