Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Sunday voiced his disapproval of an administrative decision allowing Muslim women to wear veils and burqas while voting in upcoming by-elections in the province of Quebec. Elections Canada , an independent body that oversees national elections, announced Thursday that Muslim women will be allowed to wear traditional Muslim niqabs or [...]

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega will remain in a US federal prison until all appeals relating to an extradition request by France have been exhausted, despite his originally-scheduled September 9 release date , the US Department of State said Friday. Ultimately, the State Department will issue the final order on France's extradition requests. US District [...]

Israeli police have arrested a gang of neo-Nazis accused of attacking foreigners, homosexuals and Jewish people last month, according to weekend media reports. Each member of the gang, comprised of eight young men between the ages of 16-21, are Israeli citizens who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union under the Law of Return [...]

Pakistan Monday deported former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to Saudi Arabia shortly after Sharif's attempted return from exile. Sharif was arrested on corruption and money laundering charges shortly after landing in the country on a flight from London. He chose detention over continued exile but then was put on an airplane back to Saudi [...]

Iran Sunday dismissed a ruling by a US federal judge requiring Iran to compensate the families of 241 US military personnel killed in the 1983 bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut , calling the ruling "baseless" and "politically motivated." On Friday, US District Judge Royce Lamberth awarded $2.65 billion in compensation to the [...]

California officials have finished notifying 2.741 paroled sex offenders residing in California that they must move pursuant to Proposition 83 , a law prohibiting California sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of any place where children regularly gather, such as schools and parks. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation notified all of the [...]

Pakistani security officials have detained more than 2,000 supporters of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ahead of Sharif's return from exile, Sharif spokesperson Ahsan Iqbal said Sunday. Sharif, who has been living in exile after being deposed in a 1999 military coup led by current Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf , is expected to return to [...]

Bolivian Constitutional Assembly president Silvia Lazarte announced a month-long suspension of constitutional reform talks Friday, citing security concerns after days of violent protests by university students and other opposition members who have demanded the relocation of the Bolivian capital from the city of La Paz to the historical capital of Sucre. Leftist President Evo Morales [...]

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) relied on telecommunication companies to engage in national security surveillance much broader in scope than previously acknowledged, the New York Times reported Sunday. According to documents provided by privacy rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) , the FBI used national security letters (NSL) to obtain detailed "community [...]

US District Judge William Hoeveler Friday rejected arguments by lawyers for former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega that his extradition to France would violate his prisoner of war status, lifing a stay of extradition he imposed Wednesday. Noriega is slated for release from US federal prison Sunday. US government lawyers had told Hoeveler they were satisfied [...]