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Opposition parties, as well as election monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe , alleged Monday that fraud had tainted the weekend parliamentary elections held in Tajikistan . Tajikistan's largest...

New York District Court Judge Robert W. Sweet ruled Thursday that the New York Times can protect the confidentiality of its sources under the First Amendment , refusing to dismiss the paper's lawsuit against the...

Spanish prosecutors are seeking 74,000-year prison terms for each of the three suspects accused of using Spain as a staging ground for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. The prison terms correspond to all the charges,...

A federal immigration judge Tuesday ordered the deportation from the United States of a Palestinian fund raiser for an Islamic charity alleged to have supported Hamas. Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan, who was found to have been living in the US without...

Kuwati Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah on Tuesday warned newspapers that publishing information about investigations of militants could result in the suspension or closure of those papers. Sheikh Sabah's commented that journalistic scoops could endanger security personnel and...

Top Shiite clerics in Iraq have called for Islam to be the sole source of legislation for the county's new constitution, set to be drafted by the members of the country's Transitional National Assembly chosen in the recent elections....

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday the human rights record of the Islamic government of Iran was "something to be loathed." Stopping short of calling for...

Party activists and state ministers in Indonesia have expressed concern about possible human trafficking in parentless or apparently-parentless children after last week's tsunami which killed more than 80,000 Indonesians and left over 5 million people in South Asia homeless,...

An Islamic militant on trial for treason Monday before a Turkish court denied involvement in a 1998 plan to crash an airplane into the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, expected to be crowded with visitors on the occasion of...

Seif el-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, has said that the Libyan government will not execute the five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor who were found guilty by a Libyan court in May of knowingly...