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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday called on nations to quickly sign and ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty as he opened the fourth conference on bringing the treaty into force....

A grand jury in Philadelphia on Wednesday issued a 418-page report severely criticizing the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for alleged cover-ups of widespread clergy abuses in the Archdiocese over the course of decades, but handed...

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously approved H.R. 3768 , providing $6 billion in temporary tax relief aimed at helping people and organizations hit by Hurricane Katrina . In particular, the legislation...

US Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter said Wednesday that the US Defense Department was blocking an investigation by the Senate Judiciary Committee into a highly-classified Army intelligence program that allegedly identified four of the...

Hamdi Issac, one of four suspects in a spate of failed bomb attacks in London on July 21, will be extradited Thursday to the UK, Italian sources reported Wednesday. The Italian high court had previously upheld a...

Court-martial proceedings against Pfc. Lynndie England , 22, one of the highest-profile but lowest-ranking suspects in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, began Wednesday in Fort Hood, Texas, with jury selection and...

Eight Democratic governors have called on President Bush and Congress to investigate reports of gas price gouging following Hurricane Katrina . Citing a study by a University of Wisconsin economist that concluded rising gas prices...

A group of European legislators have accused Italy of violating international human rights laws in its treatment of refugees after visiting a camp for asylum seekers on the island of Lampedusa . The 12 socialist MEPs said conditions...

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told reporters in Brussels Wednesday that he does not expect a European constitution for another two to three years. While referendum failures in France and the...