Sunni Arabs ended their boycott of the Iraqi constitution committee on Monday, rejoining the process after walking out last Wednesday to protest the July 19 assassinations of two Sunni committee members and a committee advisor in Baghdad. Their protest included demands for an international investigation into the killings, better security, and and an increased role [...]

With the US, Russia, and China announcing opposition to their plan , Japan and Germany have now approached smaller nations and possibly opened their pocketbooks in an attempt to win support for the so-called "G-4 Plan" for expansion of the UN Security Council, according to envoys from Afghanistan and Kazakhstan. Japan allegedly offered to increase [...]

A Saudi court on Monday upheld the six to nine year prison sentences for three campaigners who advocated democratic reforms in Saudi Arabia. Ali Ghothami, a lawyer representing Matruk al-Faleh, Abdullah al-Hamed and Ali Dumaini, said he was told by a Riyadh judge that the court had denied all of the appeals to their May [...]

Opposition lawmakers in the Philippines filed an impeachment complaint Monday against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo , accusing her of election fraud and other allegations. The impeachment does not come as a surprise after 50 opposition lawmakers last week expressed support for an impeachment . The filing against Arroyo claims she "stole, cheated and lied" in [...]

London police Sunday said they had arrested a third suspect in connection with the recent bombings that took place in the city's transit system. The arrest took place late Saturday "on suspicion of the commission, investigation or preparation of acts of terrorism" in the same south London area where two previous arrests were made and [...]

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told CNN's Sunday "Late Edition" that the recent bombings in London and Egypt indicate the Patriot Act is still a necessary law to prevent similar attacks from occurring in the US. Gonzales said the act now allows law enforcement officers and intelligence agents to exchange information, which has prevented other [...]

The White House said Sunday that it will not release US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' entire file during his tenure in two Republican administrations because of privacy and precedential reasons. Former US Senator Fred Thompson , who is overseeing Roberts' journey through the nomination process, said on Sunday's "Meet the Press" that documents falling [...]

Myanmar's military-led government announced Sunday that it will not seek the rotating chairmanship of the regional Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) security organization as it was entitled to do. The announcement was made during ASEAN's Ministerial Meeting in Laos, and follows repeated expressions of international dissatisfaction, especially by Western governments, over its democracy and [...]

A spokesman for former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's bloc of secular Shiites threatened Sunday that members of the bloc would join Sunnis members in boycotting the proceedings of Iraq's constitutional drafting committee . Adnan al-Janabi expressed disapproval of the committee's lukewarm response to the walkout of several Sunni members on Wednesday, following the July 19 [...]

London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair expressed regret Sunday over the killing of a man police mistakenly thought connected to July 21 London bombings . Blair stated that the shooting of Brazilian citizen Jean Charles de Menezes was a “tragedy”, but defended the use of deadly force in the Stockwell subway station, and insisted [...]