South Korea's minority Democratic Party filed a criminal suit Sunday after Assembly Speaker Kim Hyong-o on Saturday ordered security guards to end a sit-in by the minority party, which led to dozens of...
Australian acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Saturday officially announced Australia's rejection of a US request to accept foreign Guantanamo detainees. This was the second request by the Bush administration regarding Australia's acceptance of prisoners of the...
Imprisoned Zimbabwe human rights activist and head of Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) Jestina Mukoko has allegedly been tortured and forced by prison officials to ingest drugs, according to a report in...
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Friday signed a controversial media bill into law that gives power to a communication commission to regulate broadcasting with threats of fines or incarceration. The Communications Amendment Bill of 2008...
The Canadian Forces National Investigation Service (CFNIS) on Friday charged Captain Robert Semrau with second-degree murder in the killing of an Afghan citizen. Semrau is specifically charged under the National Defense Act with shooting,...
A Zimbabwe judge ruled Friday that Zimbabwe Peace Project leader Jestina Mukoko and 31 other activists charged with plotting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe must...
Human rights group Amnesty International USA on Friday accused the US of insufficiently responding to the Gaza crisis in a letter sent to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice . The letter claimed...
Pakistan on Friday said a bilateral extradition treaty would be required if it were to transfer Mumbai terror attack suspects to India. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said in a television interview that no...
Police in China detained five parents of children who became sick after drinking melamine-tainted milk , preventing the parents from participating in a Friday news conference. One of the parents said that they had been given no...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed into law amendments to the country's penal code ending jury trials for terrorism or treason suspects and giving prosecutors broader investigative...