Iraq's Interior Minister Saturday announced additional security measures for the pending January 30 election as insurgent groups increased their attacks and vowed to disrupt the vote. Baghdad International Airport will now be closed from January 29-30, nighttime curfews already...

Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was sworn in Sunday as the new president of Ukraine , succeeding the outgoing Leonid Kuchma. Yushchenko won a December 26 re-vote against opponent and former Prime...

US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has canceled plans to fly to Germany in February to attend the Munich Conference on Security Policy , giving rise to speculation that the cancellation is connected with a war...

Updating a report from earlier today in JURIST's Paper Chase, the official IRNA news agency is reporting that Gholamhossein Elham, a spokesperson for Iran's Guardian Council, has rejected reports that quoted him saying women could...

A spokesman for Iran's hard-line Guardian Council indicated Saturday that women can run in June's presidential election . The council ruling clears up an ambiguous aspect of the Iranian constitution which states that the president...

Voters in the Maldives went to the polls Saturday to elect a parliament three weeks after the Indian Ocean tsunami delayed voting. The small island chain has been under the control of Asia's longest serving ruler,...

The International Organization for Migration which runs the Iraq Out-of-Country Voting Program announced Saturday that it has extended by two full days the registration period for overseas absentee voting in Iraq ....

At a court martial that resumed Friday at a British military base in Osnabrueck Germany after the defense requested a temporary halt , a lawyer for one of three British soldiers charged with abusing Iraqi detainees accused their...

The second largest bank in the nation, JP Morgan Chase & Co. , has publicly disclosed that two of its predecessor banks had received thousands of slaves as collateral prior to the Civil War. JP Morgan offered a...

Iraq's interim defense minister said Friday that the government would arrest prominent Iraqi National Congress party leader Ahmad Chalabi after the end of the Muslim festival of Eid on Sunday for maligning him and the...