AP is reporting that four holdout Senate Republicans have reached a tentative agreement with the White House on the renewal of the USA Patriot Act , according to Congressional sources. Several provisions ...

The Australian Senate on Thursday voted to remove the need for the health minister's approval for importing and prescribing the abortion pill RU-486 (also known as Mifepristone) . The approval requirement effectively prohibits use of the...

Russian Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel on Thursday requested a death sentence for Nurpashi Kulayev , the sole surviving attacker from the September 2004 Beslan school siege . Kulayev has pleaded not guilty ...

American International Group (AIG) , one of the world's largest insurance companies, has agreed to pay $1.64 billion to settle fraud, bid-rigging and improper accounting charges, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced...

US military forces are increasing efforts to establish a proper professional police force in Iraq , but it will take time to overcome issues in the current force including corruption, low morale, and incompetence, according to the...

EU Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini said in an interview published Thursday that the EU may draw up a new media code of conduct to forestall any repetition of the global controversy now raging over the...

A Zimbabwean court has set aside a decision by country's media commission not to license the Daily News newspaper. The newspaper was ordered to stop publishing in 2003 for criticizing the government. In March 2005, the country's supreme court...

The trial of Ernst Zundel on charges of incitement, libel and disparaging the dead in connection with denying the Holocaust resumed on Thursday in Mannheim, Germany after being put...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko recommended to the Ukrainian Parliament that a committee be formed to draft a new constitution during his state of the union address on Thursday. Yushchenko...

The White House on Wednesday said it has serious concerns over parts of the proposed Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act , which is currently being debated in the US Senate . The bill, if...