Chadian President Idriss Deby said Thursday that he may pardon six French aid workers convicted in Chad in December of attempting to kidnap 103 African children within a month. In February,...

The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) Thursday condemned Israel's most recent offensive in the Gaza Strip in a resolution passed by the seventh session of the HRC. The resolution, which was...

A court in Niger sentenced the editor-in-chief of the bi-monthly L'Eveil Plus newspaper to one month in prison Thursday for "discrediting" judicial rulings by publishing an article contrasting the different sentences handed down to two politicians convicted of similar...

The Mexican Senate Thursday approved a bill authorizing a variety of judicial reforms providing for public and oral trials, guaranteeing the presumption of innocence and allowing for the use of...

The Parliament of Kenya met Thursday to discuss a power sharing deal between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition candidate Raila Odinga that could put an end the violence that began...

Spanish National Court Judge Baltasar Garzon Thursday dropped an extradition request against two UK residents formerly held by the US at the Guantanamo Bay prison after finding that they...

A military judge has ruled that US Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) cannot be forced to submit to a deposition in the court-martial of a Marine charged in connection with the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha...

Egyptian police arrested 26 additional members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday, adding to the 54 members arrested on Tuesday and the 86 arrested Wednesday. The Muslim Brotherhood said Wednesday that its...

The UK House of Lords voted Wednesday in favor of abolishing the criminal offenses of blasphemy and blasphemous libel from the UK common law. By a vote of 148-87 , the House of Lords adopted Amendment...

A UK plan that would have required all citizens to obtain ID cards when applying for passports by 2010 has been dropped , the Home Office said Thursday. Under current...