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Host country Sweden says it intends to push for strict new rules on polluters at the 28th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting convening in Stockholm June 6-17. A draft proposal that has been under neogotiation for some 20...

Human Rights Watch said in a new report Friday that governments in both North America and Europe have negligently relied upon promises of humane treatment in order to transfer terror suspects to states with well-established records...

Swedish media published Wednesday the names of over 500 Swedes missing or killed in the tsunami disaster after the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court ruled that the release...

Survivors and families of victims of last week's tsunami disaster in South Asia are falling prey to thieves, rapists, kidnappers and hoaxers. Sri Lanka's Women and Media Collective said Monday that they "have received reports of incidents of rape,...

Authorities in Thailand have dispatched hundreds of additional police to coastal provinces hardest hit by Sunday's tsunami in an effort to stem an apparent tide of looting. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has issued stern warnings to would-be looters,...

Sweden's Supreme Court Thursday reinstated the life sentence of the man convicted of murdering Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh in a Stockholm department store last year. Mijailo Mijailovic received the life sentence in March, but an appeals court later...

The European Commission is threatening to censure Sweden for failing to refer enough cases to the European Court of Justice. The Commission says that Sweden is breaking its EU treaty obligations by referring only three cases to the ECJ...

Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe, European Union, signed at Rome, October 29, 2004. Excerpt:HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF DENMARK, THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF...

It should be obvious to everyone by now that no one ever will know which presidential candidate actually won more popular votes, either in Florida or nationwide. The Florida recount process can never yield an accurate result, for efforts to...