Russian diplomats meeting with members of the Independent Inquiry Committee looking into the now defunct UN Oil-for-Food Program have said that Russian companies did not violate UN sanctions against Iraq while participating...

Following a one-day extension in negotiations on the Iraqi constitution , the speaker of the National Assembly said Friday that if consensus cannot be reached by the end of the day, the draft...

Iraqi government spokesman Laith Kubba said Thursday that a final version of the Iraqi constitution has been completed and that the document will be approved later today. A National Assembly spokesman said...

AP is reporting that a parliamentary spokesman has said that the National Assembly will not meet as planned on Thursday to consider Iraq's draft constitution . The spokesman also said that no date for a...

Former Abu Ghraib commander Janis Karpinski has alleged that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally signed a memorandum authorizing extreme interrogation techniques used at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison . In an interview ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a Navajo tribal court can proceed with its prosecution of Russell Means even though he is not a member of the tribe. Means,...

Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson said Wednesday that his remarks earlier this week seeming to call for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez were misinterpreted. Speaking Monday on the Christian Broadcast Network's The 700...

David Radler, former President and COO of Hollinger International and former publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, will plead guilty to fraud charges, his lawyer said Wednesday. Radler was indicted last...

Aruba's Superior Court has ruled that a lesbian couple legally married in the Netherlands has the right to register their marriage in the autonomous Caribbean republic that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (includings the...

Lawrence Greenfeld, former director of the US Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) , has been demoted, several months after he complained that the Bush administration was interfering with the release of a report detailing racial profiling...