Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski vowed Friday to reopen debate on the EU Council of Minister's voting mechanisms, insisting on a different interpretation of the EU reform agreement reached last Saturday by EU leaders. Kaczynski,...

Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) chairman Jerome J. Verdier said Friday that the TRC is facing severe financial difficulties and has fallen three months behind schedule, noting that it...

The Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress adopted a new labor contract law Friday, passing reforms intended to improve workers' rights by formalizing standards in labor contracts, rights of temporary workers, and severance pay privileges. The...

The US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania sentenced Russian nuclear engineer Mark M. Kaushansky to 15 months in prison Thursday for his participation in a corruption scheme with former Russian Atomic Minister Yevgeny Adamov...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan granted bail Thursday to Shumail Raj and Shahzina Tariq, a same-sex couple sentenced to three years in prison for perjury by a Lahore high court for "misrepresenting" Raj's sex, and...

The United States has renewed pressure on Myanmar to release democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi , a US State Department spokesperson said Thursday. Spokesman...

Israeli President Moshe Katsav signed a plea agreement with prosecutors Thursday, under which he will admit to charges of indecent assault, sexual harassment, and obstruction of justice, and will resign from the presidency, in...

Saifullah Paracha , a Guantanamo Bay detainee who blocked the US military from performing a cardiac catheterization on him last November, is increasing ill and suffering from frequent fainting and chest pains, his lawyers...

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) announced Thursday that it has referred the case of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi , the only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 ...

Diplomats from the United States and the European Union (EU) said Wednesday they have reached a provisional agreement on the US use of financial data from the Belgian-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) ,...