Haitian presidential candidate Rene Preval , currently leading in the official count from the February 7 election with 48.76 percent of the votes , said Tuesday that the poll was plagued...

US District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled Tuesday that Zacarias Moussaoui will no longer be allowed to be present in the courtroom for jury selection in his sentencing trial after Moussaoui walked out of a...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has called for abolition of the country's criminal defamation law that was used to jail four government critics in January. Hun Sen said the offense should be made a civil one punishable...

Kenyan police have placed a travel ban on more than 20 officials as investigations continue into government corruption. Police told some 20 officials allegedly linked to the Goldenberg affair , a multi-million gold and diamond scam, not to...

Lawyers for former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy and former state highway director Mack Roberts filed motions Tuesday asking a federal judge to drop charges against them in connection with a racketeering scheme ...

Omri Sharon, son of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon , was sentenced Tuesday to a nine month prison term for illegal campaign fundraising. Sharon was indicted in August for setting up false companies as a disguise...

The Egyptian opposition Muslim Brotherhood has promised to fight legislation backed by President Hosni Mubarak that would delay local elections in Egypt for an another two years and preserve the...

Sudan police have arrested five Sudanese human rights activists in the Darfur region and beat and arrested several Sudanese students who were rioting on the Juba University campus in Northern Khartoum, according to Amnesty International [advocacy...

Two Iraqis claiming they were beaten by British soldiers following a demonstration that turned violent in 2004 said Tuesday that they would sue the UK military over the incident. According to Bassem Shaker, one of the two, he was...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, South Korea has nominated its Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon as a candidate for the office of the UN Secretary-General . The office, currently held by Kofi Annan is up for...