Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire signed legislation Saturday recognizing domestic partnership status for same-sex couples. The law guarantees gay and lesbian couples some of the legal rights that previously were afforded only to husband...
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The two major opposition parties in Nigeria and an election watch group on Sunday challenged the legitimacy of the country's Saturday presidential elections, reporting voting delays and potential ballot-rigging in favor of the People's Democratic Party...
Former chess champion and liberal United Civil Front leader Garry Kasparov has accused Russian police of "brutality" after meeting with Kremlin officials Friday to give an account of his treatment at...
A French appeals court Saturday acquitted one of 12 individuals who appealed their convictions in a 2005 child prostitution case, one of the biggest criminal trials in the country's history . Sixty-two men and women were...
The Shiite head of Iraq's Debaathification Commission said Friday he would fight a proposed law allowing former Baath party members to return to their previously held government positions. Despite provisions in the proposal...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held late this week that Arizona may enforce its voter identification law while a non-profit organization challenges the law in federal court. The law, which Arizonans approved...
A lawyer representing the Venezuelan government said Friday that Venezuela plans to press the United States on its refusal to prosecute or extradite Cuban anti-Castro militant and Venezuelan national Luis Posada Carriles on charges...
Jorge Acosta, president of Ecuador's Supreme Electoral Tribunal confirmed Friday that in a referendum last Sunday an overwhelming majority of voters approved the convening of a constitutional assembly to rewrite the country's constitution...
Virgina Tech shooting gunman Seung-Hui Cho was technically prohibited from purchasing firearms after a Virginia court found Cho to be an "imminent danger to himself" in December 2005 and issued an order for Cho to receive psychiatric treatment,...
The US House of Representatives voted Friday to provide shareholders with an advisory vote on executive compensation , noting that in the last 15 years, compensation of Fortune 500 CEOs has moved from 140 times...
