Nepal's King Gyanendra on Monday reinstated the Nepal House of Representatives, the lower house of parliament dissolved by the then prime minister in 2002, saying that the assembly would convene on Friday. In a televised...

Iraqi prosecutors Monday played in court a taped phone conversation allegedly between Saddam Hussein and co-defendant Taha Yassin Ramadan , a former vice president, where the two discussed the situation in Dujail. The voice...

Australian prosecutors on Monday accused a Pakistani-born Australian immigrant of planning to bomb one of two targets in Sydney in one of the first cases to be tried under the country's new post 9/11 anti-terrorism laws . Faheem Khalid...

Leading Monday's international brief, the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal warned the Nepal government again that international standards governing police actions during times of civil unrest must be observed...

Relatives of Polish victims of the 1940 Katyn massacre are planning to file a complaint against Russia with the European Court of Human Rights to compel the government to disclose information about the killings perpetrated...

In a report released Monday, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime criticized the efforts of countries around the world as ineffective in blocking the flow of people smuggled into countries, many of...

A group of prominent physicists has urged President Bush not to use tactical nuclear weapons against Iran in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , after recent articles in the Washington Post ...

Evidence of prisoner abuse in facilities operated by Iraq's Interior Ministry was discovered by US inspectors as recently as February 2006, according to a report in Monday's Washington Post. According to the article, a handful of...

Software giant Microsoft opened day one of an expected five-day appeals hearing before the European Union's Court of First Instance by claiming that it should be allowed to both protect its intellectual property...

Human Rights Watch Monday called the use of lethal injections by US authorities "incompetent, negligent, and irresponsible" in a report urging the federal government and the 37 out of 38 death penalty states that use that...