A contentious draft Iraqi oil law approved Tuesday by Iraq's cabinet stalled on its way to parliament Wednesday after Sunni and Kurd politicians and Shiite lawmakers associated with radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr objected to...

A Malaysian judge Wednesday rejected a bid by former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to sue former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad for defamation in connection with renewed allegations that Anwar is a homosexual. Mahathir dismissed...

In his first statement to the UK House of Commons Tuesday, new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown laid out a series of proposed constitutional reforms he said were designed to make British government...

Legal Arizona Workers Act, signed into law by Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, July 2, 2007 . Read the full...

An Act to repeal section 546.720, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to administration of the death penalty, with penalty provisions (HB 820), signed into law by Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt, June 30, 2007 [prohibiting...

The interim government of Thailand has proposed an internal security bill that would allow the military to remain a political force even after the election of a civilian-run government, according to critics Tuesday. The proposal would...

The government of Thailand announced Tuesday it was abandoning a law that allowed the cabinet to censor political or controversial Internet sites based solely on the Minister of Communication's discretion. Now Internet websites can now only...

International participants promised more than $360 million in aid to help build up Afghanistan's ailing judicial system at a conference of UN members and Afghan leaders that concluded in Rome Tuesday. Despite the pledge, judiciary problems were overshadowed by...

Federal prosecutors disclosed Tuesday that they will seek the death penalty if a conviction is secured against former US soldier Steven D. Green , the alleged key player in the Mahmudiya rape-murder case...

President George W. Bush said Tuesday afternoon that, although he believed the jury verdict in the perjury case against former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby should stand, it was conceivable that he could...