Last-minute talks continued Sunday at the UN as an intergovernmental negotiating group struggled to finalize a text to be submitted to the UN's 2005 World Summit , scheduled to begin Wednesday. The group is working to...

The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) issued a joint report with 21 other rights groups Saturday on last week's Egyptian presidential elections , concluding that although up to 15 percent of the votes cast...

California Army National Guard Sgt. David Fimon has been sentenced to a year in military confinement and received a bad-conduct discharge after pleading guilty to abusing detainees in Iraq. Fimon pleaded guilty to maltreatment of detainees, conspiracy to commit...

The Israeli Cabinet voted Sunday to leave Gaza, the last formality in Israeli withdrawal from the region before handing over control to the Palestinian Authority (PA) . However, the Cabinet also voted against demolishing 20 synagogues...

Ayman Nour , the main rival to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Wednesday's multi-party election, said Saturday that the vote-counting process which resulted in Mubarak's officially-declared victory Friday with a certified 88.6%...

The US government has so far held back from making any guarantee to illegal immigrants caught up in aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that they will be able to seek help from federal agencies without fear of...

Kuwaiti Justice Minister Ahmad Baqer said Saturday that Kuwait has prepared its own indictment against former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein for crimes against the emirate during the 1990-1991 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and that that indictment...

The Washington Post reported Saturday that a group of former aides and other Republicans are quietly boosting the Supreme Court nomination of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales by shoring up his reputation among conservatives. Former...

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani , now on a visit to the United States, insisted Friday at a Washington press conference that if the draft Iraqi constitution is not adopted in a referendum next month there...

The head of UK security service MI5 has warned that civil liberties might need to be "eroded" in order to protect the British people from terrorism after the "shock" of the London bombings . Dame...