The head of Uzbekistan's Independent Human Rights Organization was quoted Saturday as saying that some 200 people were killed in the eastern city of Andijan Friday when government forces backed by tanks opened fire on demostrators in...

Officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced Saturday that the country's legislature has adopted a new constitution to replace the transitional document agreed to in South Africa in 2002...

A gathering of some 3000 Egyptian judges in Cairo Friday followed up threats first made in April and agreed by consensus to boycott the upcoming Egyptian national election unless the government gives them full and independent oversight...

Santiago v. Rumsfeld, et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, May 13, 2005 [upholding the US military's power to issue emergency stop-loss orders to keep soldiers on active duty beyond the time set in their service...

Following up a 3-sentence order issued early last month , a panel of the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Friday issued a full ruling upholding the US military's power to issue emergency "stop-loss" orders to...

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Friday in a statement that after the Senate completes deliberations next week on a highway bill he will put forward the hitherto-blocked nominations of Judges Priscilla Owen and Janice...

Nine more people were killed in spreading anti-US riots across Afghanistan Friday despite new US assurances that American authorities would not tolerate disrepect for the Koran at Guantanamo Bay or anywhere else and Pentagon insistence that the...

The UK government announced Friday that it will propose new laws to combat fraudulent postal voting, a problem that arose in the recent national election when fraudulently-requested postal ballots prevented some voters from voting in person and...

A leading Pakistan daily reported Friday that 40 detainees released from US detention at Guantanamo Bay have been held without charges at Rawalpindi's Adiala prison for the past eight months. Pakistani law currently allows the detention of "Indian agents"...

As anticipated , Russian prosecutors Friday announced plans to bring new charges of money laundering against Mikhail Khodorkovsky , former CEO of second-largest Russian oil firm Yukos , and his business partner Platon Lebedev. Khodorkovsky is...