Mexican lawmakers Tuesday approved a law permitting Mexicans living abroad to vote by mail in next July's presidential election. The lower house of Congress passed the measure 455 to 6, with 6 abstentions. The measure has already been passed...

Iran state television announced Friday that the Iranian Interior Ministry would extend the polling hours of the country's second presidential runoff election for the fifth time. The voting started at 9 AM local time and was scheduled to end...

Iranian Interior Ministry officials said Friday that intimidation and other abuses were impairing the presidential run-off election between relative moderate and former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and hard-liner and mayor of Tehran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . The...

A judge has added $130 million to the $1.45 billion verdict against Morgan Stanley a jury awarded last month to billionaire financier and Revlon Inc. chairman Ron Perelman. The judge took off about $84.5 million...

Amnesty International Friday called for the US to open detention centers around the world to UN experts, expressing "deep regret" at the reluctance to to allow human rights experts to visit with detainees. The organization again called...

Federal law enforcment authorities in San Francisco have unsealed an indictment charging 19 people with drug trafficking and using three San Francisco medical marijuana dispensaries as fronts for organized crime. In marijuana raids conducted earlier this week ...

A federal court in Lausanne, Switzerland ruled Friday that former Russian nuclear minister Yevgeny Adamov must remain in a Swiss prison pending hearings on an extradition request from Russia, overruling a decision two weeks ago...

A three judge panel of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday rejected claims by thirteen states that the Bush administration's decision to let older power plants emit more pollution violates the Clean Air Act . The policy...

The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction told a House subcommittee hearing focused on the US handling of the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) on Tuesday that evidence relating to finances used for reconstruction has...

Jassim al-Issawi, a Sunni Muslim Iraqi judge whose name was at one point on the list to serve on a parliamentary committee to draft Iraq's new constitution was killed by gunmen in Baghdad on Wednesday. Al-Issawi,...