The Israeli Supreme Court ordered the government Monday to establish more specific criteria to be used by military officials when deciding whether Palestinian students may enter Israel to study. The supreme court's decision came in a lawsuit...
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Officials from 13 states, the District of Columbia, and the South Coast Air Quality Management District filed a lawsuit Monday against the US Environmental Protection Agency "for failing to mandate lower levels of disease-causing soot...
Violent crime in the US increased during the first half of 2006 when compared with the same period in 2005, according to the FBI's Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report released Monday. Violent crime, including...
Lawyers for a business associate of former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma filed an appeal Monday with the South African Constitutional Court asking that the corruption conviction of Schabir Shaik be overturned....
Iraqi authorities are investigating the escape from prison of a former head of the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity . Ayham al-Samaraie , a member of the 2004-2005 interim Iraqi government , was serving a two-year sentence...
Sudanese Justice Minister Mohammed Ali al-Mardhi has indicated that Sudan will cooperate with a UN Human Rights Council mission investigating human rights abuses in Darfur , according to reports Monday in local Sudanese media. The...
The Turkish government has condemned the passage of legislation in Argentina which refers to the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey around the time of World War I as genocide and establishes a day of...
Saddam Hussein's genocide trial resumed Monday at the Iraqi High Tribunal in Baghdad with the prosecution presenting documentary evidence they say links Hussein to chemical weapons used during the 1987-88 "Anfal" campaigns [HRW...
The US Department of Defense announced Sunday that it has transferred 17 more Guantanamo Bay detainees to their home countries for detention or release, bringing the number of detainees released from Guantanamo this year...
Six leading US and Japanese automakers Friday asked a federal judge to dismissal a California lawsuit alleging that vehicle emissions of greenhouse gases from cars made by the companies have contributed to global warming constituting a 'public...
