Slovak Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda has decided to abandon an agreement with the Vatican , prompting a major breakdown in the Slovak government with the Christian Democrat Movement (KDH)...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday criticized a Constitutional Court ruling that halted the court-martial of opposition leader Kizza Besigye on charges of possessing illegal firearms. Museveni vowed to fight the court ruling...

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has promised to target corruption in governments that deal with the bank and in the organization itself during a worldwide staff meeting. As an example, Wolfowitz cited Kenya, from which the World...

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday announced proposed new immigration laws that would enable the government to be more selective in allowing newcomers into the country and...

Following angry protests over the Muhammad cartoons by British Muslims in London late last week, UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke Tuesday renewed calls for the inclusion of a "glorifying terrorism" offense in the proposed...

A Canadian judge Monday banned foreign media from the courtroom for a long-awaited criminal trial over the use of HIV-infected blood-clotting medicine by the Canadian Red Cross in the 1980s that led to more than 1000 Canadians...

Several hundred Afghan protestors demonstrating against the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in Danish, Norwegian and other European papers stormed a NATO ISAF peacekeeping base near Maymana [alternatively "Meymaneh"; Wikipedia...

Five Turkish journalists went on trial Monday on charges of "insulting state judicial organs" and "trying to influence the judicial process." Prosecutors filed these charges in December for comments regarding the government's attempts to ban a conference ...

Rival black and Hispanic gangs took part in another racially motivated brawl late Monday evening at a Los Angeles County jail dorm, in a repeat of a similar brawl last weekend which killed one inmate and injured...

CNN is reporting that British-based Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been found guilty in the UK of inciting murder. Hamza faced several charges for urging his followers to kill Jews and...