A military hearing for the five US Army soldiers now charged in connection with the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family in Mahmudiya began Sunday with...

US governors attending the annual meeting of the National Governors Association that got under way Saturday in Charleston, South Carolina, are opposing a bill in Congress that would allow the president to take over the...

Mexico leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has vowed to continue with street demonstrations after the Federal Electoral Tribunal on Saturday rejected his request for a full ballot-by-ballot recount [JURIST...

Arab leaders have denounced as criminal and a breach of international law an Israeli air strike on the Lebanese village of Qana Sunday that killed over 60 civilians - mostly women and children - as the Middle East conflict...

Iran will stop considering international incentives to end its uranium enrichment program if the UN Security Council passes a resolution sanctioning the country, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi ...

The seven judges of Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal Saturday heard arguments by lawyers for leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for a full recount of the July 2 presidential poll...

NAACP leaders say that at least 1,000 members attending the organization's annual convention now underway in Washington, DC will go to Capital Hill this Wednesday to urge the Senate to renew portions of the Voting...

L.K. Advani , leader of India's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) , said in a speech Sunday in Bhopal that the July 11 Mumbai train bombings were "a fallout of repealing" the country's Prevention...

The British Home Office is considering enacting rules that would dismiss company directors and seize assets of firms caught employing illegal immigrants, the Sunday Times has reported. Under the new rules, employers could even be punished if...

North Korea (DPRK) Sunday condemned a UN Security Council resolution passed unanimously Saturday imposing sanctions on the country and demanding that it stop controversial missile tests . The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) [media...