Syria has requested a formal "cooperation protocol" with the United Nations which would govern the country's assistance with a UN investigation into the death of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri . A draft given...

The Dutch Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that the Netherlands wants to secure a prisoners' rights guarantee in Afghanistan with its NATO allies, including the United States, before deciding whether to send additional...

New German chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that she plans to revive the European constitution , on hold since French and Dutch voters rejected the charter earlier...

Austria has joined several other countries investigating whether the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conducted unauthorized flights through their airspace in 2003 while transporting terror detainees. An Austrian air force commander told state radio that a US...

Defense lawyers in the Saddam Hussein trial announced Thursday that they will attend the next session of the trial scheduled for November 28 despite the recent assassination of two of their colleagues. The defense team had...

Members of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting in Vienna agreed Thursday to pursue a Russian compromise proposal rather than report Tehran to the UN Security Council for its nuclear...

A group of gay marriage opponents in Massachusetts said Wednesday they had gathered enough signatures to put a proposed constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage on the state ballot. The group, lead by the Massachusetts Family Institute and...

The National Education Association (NEA) has promised to appeal a Wednesday ruling by a federal judge in Michigan dismissing its lawsuit challenging the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) [PDF text; executive summary; US Dept....

Leading Thursday's international brief, the Turkish Parliament has voted to investigate the grenade bombing of a former Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) member in the primarily Kurdish town of Semdinli. The attacker, an informant...

Clinic for Women, Inc. v. Carl J. Brizzi, Indiana Supreme Court, November 23, 2005 [upholding an Indiana law requiring women seeking an abortion in Indiana to undergo counseling about medical risks and abortion-alternatives and wait at least 18 hours after...