France's far-right National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen , who surprised observers with his strong performance in the 2002 French presidential election , will be put on trial in Paris for allegedly denying how brutal...
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House Majority Leader Jim Boehner (R-OH) on Wednesday scheduled seven more House hearings through the end of July on comprehensive immigration reform , and characterized the first round of hearings ...
Lord Michael Levy , chief fundraiser for British Prime Minister Tony Blair , returned to a police station for questioning Thursday after he was arrested by Scotland Yard Wednesday in connection with a...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday that the US Department of Defense (DOD) decision to apply the Geneva Conventions to detainees in US military custody "strengthens the international rule of law, and is...
Massachusetts lawmakers on Wednesday decided to postpone a vote on a proposed state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage until after the November election, just days after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a law that shortens the conscription term and wipes out five accepted reasons for military draft deferments. The law, passed by both houses of...
Indian authorities have detained approximately 350 people for questioning in connection with Tuesday's Mumbai train bombings , which killed over 200 people and wounded 700. Police Inspector S. Goshal said Thursday that none of the detainees have been...
US Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and other leading Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday pushed for legislation authorizing military commissions for terror suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay during a committee hearing ...
The US military revealed Wednesday that Saddam Hussein and three of his co-defendants are five days into a hunger strike in protest of trial court procedures and the killings of three of their defense lawyers, which...
Bosnian immigrant Marko Boskic was convicted Wednesday when a US federal jury found that he had failed to reveal his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre while trying to enter the US as a...
