The Iraqi Interior Ministry said Sunday that it will no longer allow news photographers or cameramen at the scenes of bomb attacks. Brigadier General Abdel-Karim Khalaf, head of the ministry's national operations center, told AFP that...
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that a US district judge did not abuse his discretion in refusing to allow an Arizona death row inmate to pursue an ineffective assistance of counsel claim after...
Leadership within the Communist Party of Nepal - Maoists (CPN-M) has called on Nepal's interim parliament to immediately declare the country a federal democratic republic. CPN-M leadership formed a human protest chain through the parliament building on...
Joram Gumbo, a Zimbabwean delegate to the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) and member of the ruling party of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe , expressed outrage and contempt Sunday for the African organization's decision to send...
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has signed legislation making English the official state language. The bill , which was signed Friday and takes effect July 1, also gives state and local governments the discretion...
Japan's House of Councillors , the upper house of the National Diet, approved legislation Monday establishing procedures to facilitate a national constitutional referendum. The legislation requires a three-year public consultation period before parliament can...
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf traded barbs and accusations with opponents over the weekend after 39 people were killed Saturday in Karachi in clashes sparked by the arrival of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry [official profile; JURIST...
Moscow City Court has rejected a bid by a surviving member of the Russian Romanov imperial dynasty to declare Tsar Nicholas II exonerated of the Soviet-era criminal charge against him and declare his 1918 murder at the...
A spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that Karzai would await a Supreme Court ruling on the legality of parliament dismissing government ministers before relieving Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta after...
Voters in Farmers Branch, Texas approved a city ordinance Saturday which requires apartment renters to show proof of US residency and penalizes landlords who rent to illegal immigrants . Landlords who do not...