Togo's constitutional court Tuesday confirmed ruling party candidate Faure Gnassingbe as the official winner of the disputed April 24 presidential election. According to the court, Gnassingbe won by 60.15 percent of the vote. The constitutional...

Exiled former President of Liberia Charles Taylor will remain a threat to the entire West African region until he is tried and has said he will continue his efforts to assassinate Guinean President Lansana Conte according...

New Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and 27 Cabinet members were sworn in Tuesday as Iraq's first post-Saddam elected government. That government remains incomplete, however, with five ministries under temporary leadership and two deputy prime...

Thousands of Omanis on Tuesday gathered at a mosque in Oman's capital city of Muscat to protest Monday's state security court conviction of 31 people for plotting to overthrow Sultan Qaboos [Oman Ministry of Information...

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi emerged victorious Tuesday after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that EU law could not overrule an Italian law partially decriminalizing false accounting crimes. The...

The UK-based group Military Families Against the War delivered a letter of claim to Prime Minister Tony Blair Tuesday demanding a full independent public inquiry into the deaths of their relatives and the...

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called on American political and religious leaders to repudiate remarks by evangelist Pat Robertson who said Sunday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos that Muslims should not...

Dennis Rader , the man accused of being Kansas's BTK (bind, torture, kill) serial killer, pleaded not guilty Monday to 10 counts of murder. The BTK killer was suspected of eight murders from 1974 to 1991, but...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Monday heard a bid to restrain same-sex couples from marrying until state residents can vote on a proposed state constitutional amendment banning such marriages. The action was brought by C.J....

In an attempt to break a ten-year deadlock over reforming the United Nations Security Council , Italy suggested Monday that a new system be instituted by which the council would award 10 new seats to regional groups rather...