The Cuban government on Friday paroled dissident Francisco Chaviano Gonzalez , after the former president of the Cuban National Council for Civil Rights served 13 years in prison. Chaviano was sentenced to 15 years in prison in May 1994 for allegedly "revealing state security secrets" and "falsifying public documents" by documenting cases of refugees who [...]

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Lawyers representing exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky filed an appeal Friday against the latest arrest warrant issued by a Moscow district court on allegations that Berezovsky embezzled $13 million in credit funds from a bank he formerly owned. The court has also ordered the seizure of Berezovsky's Mediterranean real estate in France, which was allegedly [...]

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Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor reiterated allegations Friday that Libyan authorities subjected the six medics to torture during their eight years in Libyan custody on suspicion of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus . The six medics have consistently maintained their innocence, and in testimony before a Bulgarian investigation [...]

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The Bush administration Friday announced new reforms that are designed to "address border security and immigration challenges." In a statement Friday, Bush said that the new meausres "represent steps my Administration can take within the boundaries of existing law to better secure our borders, improve worksite enforcement, streamline existing temporary worker programs, and help new [...]

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The Supreme Court of Pakistan ordered the Pakistani government to produce complete voter registration records Friday after former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto petitioned that there were up to 30 million missing registrations. Bhutto's lawyer Latif Khosa argued that the 2002 registration had failed to account for 20 million eligible voters, and that an estimated additional [...]

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