The United Nations Wednesday defended its decision approving Tunisia to host a UN summit on Internet access in the developing world, despite protests that the country is unfit due to repeated allegations of press and civil society abuses. The...
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Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has said that he will veto a ban on human cloning approved by the state senate Wednesday by a margin of 21-12. The ban, previously approved by the Wisconsin Assembly...
The European Union will hold a meeting Sunday to discuss Austria's objections to beginning negotiations with Turkey on the country's proposed membership to the EU . All 25 of...
Leading Thursday's international brief, the current president of the UN Security Council , Philippine Ambassador Lauro Baja condemned the renewed violence in the Darfur region of Sudan , and warned that the...
A Tokyo court dismissed a lawsuit against Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Thursday that claimed his visits to a Shinto war shrine violated Japan's constitutional separation of religion and state. The court denied the plaintiffs'...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Wednesday strongly criticized a ruling from a US immigration judge earlier this week that Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles would not be handed over to Venezuela...
President Bush granted pardons to 14 people Wednesday, according to a list released by the US Justice Department . Among those pardoned was a mineworker union member who was convicted...
FBI Director Robert Mueller has said the US is still seeking to improve the extradition of terror suspects from European governments. Mueller on Wednesday said more efficient measures were needed to increase the intelligence value...
International representatives and Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki have called for a halt to violence that continued to escalate among rival groups over constitutional reforms to be voted on in November . A statement signed...
More than 1,100 political prisoners continue to be held by the military government in Myanmar , despite pledges by the government to release dissidents as part of democratic reforms, the UN Special Rapporteur to Myanmar Paulo Sergio Pinheiro...
