French President Jacques Chirac announced Wednesday that he will seek to overturn a controversial law regarding the teaching of France's colonial history. The law , approved in February 2005, requires French history teachers...
Ugandan opposition leader and presidential challenger Dr. Kizza Besigye appeared in court on Wednesday to face rape charges. His lawyers cross-examined Joanita Kyakuwa who claims that she was raped twice by Besigye, in 1997...
Russian prosecutors leading the probe into the September 2004 Beslan school siege issued a report Monday concluding that Chechen terrorists, not Russian authorities, were to blame for the deaths of 330 people, mostly children. Another...
Khalil Dulaimi, chief Iraqi defense counsel for Saddam Hussein, told the Jordanian newspaper Al Arab Al Yawm in a report published Monday that Saddam Hussein's half brother, Barzan Ibrahim had been offered...
In a move to bolster its democratic credentials, the Council of the European Union , the EU's senior decision-making body, will begin to debate and vote more often in public in the new year. Television cameras will be...
A body found in a canal in Brussels, Belgium, was identified on Friday as that of an indicted Rwandan ex-minister cooperating with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) . Former Rwandan Commerce Minister Juvenal Uwilingiyimana was indicted...
An Italian judge issued European arrest warrants on Friday for the 22 CIA operatives accused of participating in the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003 . Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro said the warrants allowed for the arrest...
Muslim-Americans attending an annual international religious conference in Canada that began Friday and continues through January 4 may be subject to lengthy security checks upon their return to the United States after US District...
US Senate Juduciary Committee ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy suggested Friday that US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito will face additional questions at his January confirmation hearing on unchecked presidential authority and the particular issue of...
In response to a series of deadly bombings in recent months, the government of Bangladesh plans to introduce a new anti-terrorist law to counter Islamist militants. The attacks, aimed at judges, lawyers, police and journalists, have killed...