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...

Officials from the joint UN-Cambodia Khmer Rouge Genocide Tribunal being set up to try former Khmer Rouge leaders said Thursday that the first trials should begin in 2007. Though no...

Racially-motivated riots again erupted at a Los Angeles County jail on Wednesday, leaving 22 inmates injured. The fighting at Pitchess Detention Center began when inmates at a group dorm were separated along racial lines. The violence was...

Leading Thursday's international brief, in one of the first directly anti-monarchial protests recorded in Nepal , over one thousand Nepalese citizens gathered to protest the death of a Nepalese protestor on Wednesday at the hands of...

US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday that he is working on legislation that would require court supervision of President Bush's domestic surveillance program ....

The number of detainees still on hunger strike at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay has dropped to four, military officials said Wednesday. The head military spokesman at Guantanamo also said that prison...

The conservative Italian government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has pushed through new legislation putting marijuana (cannabis) on par with cocaine and heroine and ending the legal distinction between 'soft' and 'hard' drugs, effectively recriminalizing marijuana use in...

Statistics published this week show that almost 400 euthanasia cases were reported in Belgium in 2005, almost double the level when the Belgian parliament adopted controversial legislation authorizing the practice in 2002....

Oversight letter from Rep. James Sensenbrenner, chair of the US House Judiciary Committee, to US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales requesting answers about the National Security Agency's (NSA) terrorist surveillance program, February 8, 2006. Read the full text of the questions...