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Israeli officials announced Sunday that they will urge Britain to restrict laws which allow private war crimes suits to be filed against foreign citizens. The request was prompted by an incident last week where Doron Almog, former commander of...

The UN on Friday evacuated 11 Uzbek refugees to London after they fled to Kyrgyzstan following deadly riots that erupted in Andijan last spring. The 11 refugees were accused of terrorism by the Uzbekistan...

Russian President Vladimir Putin called Thursday for collective international action to defeat terrorism as he addressed world leaders at the ongoing 2005 World Summit on UN reform . Putin urged the adoption of...

Russian President Vladimir Putin was the first world leader to sign the UN Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism , which opened for signatures Wednesday at the UN's 2005 World Summit ....

Former Israeli army General Doron Almog said Monday that he had narrowly escaped arrest on war crimes charges after arriving Sunday at London's Heathrow airport for a planned UK vacation. Allegedly tipped off by British government contacts, Israel's ambassador...

Kyrgyz Prime Minister Felix Kulov said Monday that Kyrgyzstan will decide on the fate of 15 Uzbek refugees trilaterally through the opinions of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ...

US and international human rights groups Tuesday condemned the failure of authorities to protect victims of Hurricane Katrina who were left for days without relief in increasingly desperate conditions in New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf...

A British High Court judge has warned that forcible returns of failed asylum seekers to Iraq could be unlawful. While not blocking removals during the urgent judicial review application brought by a Kurdish Iraqi, Justice Lawrence Collins said it...

Complete text of the draft Iraqi constitution, as translated from the Arabic by the Associated Press :PREAMBLECHAPTER ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLESCHAPTER TWO: RIGHTS AND FREEDOMSPART ONE: RIGHTSPART TWO: FREEDOMSCHAPTER THREE: THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIESPART ONE: THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITYPART TWO:...

A Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry official announced Monday that Kyrgyzstan will not return refugees who fled Uzbekistan after an uprising in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijan in May. Zafar Hakimov, director of the Foreign Ministry's migration service...