Resolution 1696, UN Security Council, July 31, 2006, . Read the full text of the resolution....

The UN Security Council Monday passed a resolution giving Iran until August 31 to halt uranium enrichment and threatening sanctions if it does not comply. Resolution 1696 , adopted 14-1 with Qatar voting against,...

Opening an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council Sunday, hours after an Israeli air strike that killed over 60 civilians in the Lebanese village of Qana, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that...

Over 20,000 Bangladeshis marched Saturday in the capital Dhaka calling for electoral reforms ahead of a nationwide poll scheduled for January. Peaceful demonstrations organized by a coalition of 14 opposition parties began Tuesday. The demonstrators were closely watched by...

A frustrated New Orleans Parish criminal court judge said Friday in an emergency order that he will start releasing prisoners on August 29 if their cases do not go to trial by then. Judge Arthur Hunter asked,...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a controversial law against extremism that a Kremlin statement described as "aimed at improving the definition of extremist activity by classifying socially dangerous actions as extremist." Crimes embraced by the legislation...

CBS has appealed a Federal Communications Commission decision to fine it $550,000 for an incident in the 2004 Super Bowl broadcast when performer Janet Jackson experienced what was later euphemistically labeled a "wardrobe...

The US House of Representatives passed two key bills late Friday in a blitz of legislative activity before its scheduled summer adjournment. A measure described by House Majority Leader John Boehner (D-OH) as representing "the most...

A spokesman for British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday that US President George W. Bush has offered Blair a brief apology for apparent US failure to follow proper UK aviation safety procedures in a recent transshipment of American...

The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday blocked the US Department of Justice from reviewing the contents of files seized from the congressional office of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) until Jefferson has an opportunity...