A Texas law requiring doctors to get parental consent for minors seeking abortions will take effect Thursday even though the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners hasn't finalized the specifics of how...
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Lebanon on Wednesday released a former lawmaker questioned in the investigation into the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri . Nasser Qandil, a pro-Syrian legislator, refused to comment on what he told investigators after...
Officials struggled Wednesday to control looting in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina as tiring law enforcement officers and National Guardsmen undertook more rescue and relief efforts. Widespread looting throughout the city has been reported, with crowds...
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday approved changes to procedures for military commissions used for trying certain detainees held at Guantanamo Bay . The changes to Military Commission...
Indonesia released over 1,400 Achenese rebel inmates Wednesday, granting them blanket amnesty in accordance with a decree signed by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Tuesday night. The newly freed prisoners have agreed to honor their monumental peace accord [PDF...
Revised draft of the final Iraqi constitution received by the Iraqi National Assembly, August 28, 2005. Read the full text as translated from the Arabic by the Associated Press ....
US District Court Judge Denise Cote has ruled that a suit filed by the First Presbyterian Church of Sudan against Canadian oil and gas producer Talisman Energy should continue, despite US and Canadian government attempts to have...
The Chinese government signed a Memorandum of Understanding Wednesday agreeing to collaborate with the UN's human rights agency to reform the Chinese legal system in preparation for the adoption of a key UN treaty on civil...
Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky , who is serving a nine-year prison sentence on fraud charges, officially announced his intention Wednesday to run for a Russian parliamentary seat . The election for Khodorkovsky's...
The Cambodian Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the appeal of a reporter found guilty of defaming Cambodia's foreign minister by suggesting he was involved in prisoners' deaths during the brutal Khmer Rouge reign. Kay Kimsong and two...
