Humam Hammoudi, head of Iraq's constitutional drafting committee , told reporters Tuesday that it was unlikely that the three additional days provided by the National Assembly to settle differences over the charter would be sufficient...

Eric Rudolph , who pleaded guilty in April to the 1996 Olympic Park bombing and later bombings at an abortion clinic and gay nightclub in Atlanta, Monday was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences plus 120...

Egypt's Supreme Committee of Presidential Elections has rejected any international assistance in monitoring the upcoming presidential elections, the first multi-candidate election in Egypt's history. Committee spokesperson Osama Attawiya told the Kuwait News Agency Monday that under Egypt's...

Reuters is reporting Monday that a draft of Iraq's constitution calls the country a "republican, parliamentarian, democratic and federal" state, but fails to detail the extent of the federalism. The vague language may indicate a compromise...

Iranian political prisoner, dissident journalist Akbar Ganji , has ended the hunger strike he began on June 11 to protest the conditions of his confinement, his wife confirmed Monday. The confirmation follows an earlier announcement from...

The Arab Regional Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has issued a report saying the Yemen judiciary system and employment in the country's monitoring and control bodies is "infested with corruption." The...

A Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry official announced Monday that Kyrgyzstan will not return refugees who fled Uzbekistan after an uprising in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijan in May. Zafar Hakimov, director of the Foreign Ministry's migration service...

With just a few hours remaining before Monday's midnight deadline , drafters of the Iraqi constitution have settled some crucial issues, but are still struggling with the role that Islam should play in the nation's...

A Texas jury on Friday awarded a $253.4 million verdict in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the widow of a man who suffered cardiac arrest after using the prescription osteoarthritis drug Vioxx . Merck ,...

John Allen Muhammad , who has been convicted of murder in Virginia for one of the ten Washington DC area sniper killings, was moved Friday from Virginia's death row to Maryland in order to face trial...