The editors of seven independent newspapers in Egypt plan to go on strike Sunday to protest the lack of legal protection afforded to journalists, the independent daily Al-Masry Al-Youm reported Tuesday. The...

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has said in a television broadcast that his Thai Rak Thai party is innocent of election fraud allegedly committed in an abortive general election this spring....

CNN is reporting that former Enron founder Kenneth Lay is dead. According to a spokesman for Lay's family, Lay suffered a massive heart attack in Aspen, Colorado on Tuesday evening. Lay,...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday called for an independent Iraqi inquiry into allegations that US soldiers raped an Iraqi woman and murdered her and her family near the town of Mahmudiya in March. Al-Maliki said...

Joseph Kony , leader of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda, will be granted amnesty if upcoming LRA negotiations with the southern Sudanese government proceed smoothly and if he renounces terrorist...

The retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting more than 400 Libyan patients, primarily children, with HIV resumed Tuesday in Tripoli. The court heard testimony from three prosecution witnesses -...

Claiming that some ballots were counted twice and others not at all because of fraud, Mexico's Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) is demanding a full recount of votes in last weekend's presidential election. Preliminary results [JURIST...

Police arrested two Italian intelligence officers Wednesday, including a senior official, in connection with the alleged extraordinary rendition of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr , also known as Abu Omar. Judicial sources said that...

Microsoft has said that it will comply with sanctions imposed by the South Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) after the Seoul High Court rejected a request by Microsoft to stay the penalties...

Republicans from the US House of Representatives begin a series of immigration hearings Wednesday in order to assess the threats at the country's borders and the labor needs to combat those threats in preparation for final negotiations...