A Libyan court Sunday postponed for the second time the criminal defamation trial of six foreign medics accused of slandering three Libyan police agents and a Libyan doctor. Five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor were...

European Union leaders marked the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome Sunday by signing a declaration aimed at revitalizing efforts to pass an European constitution . The non-binding Berlin Declaration...

The UN Security Council unanimously voted Saturday to impose new sanctions on Iran for continuing to enrich uranium in violation of a December 2006 resolution. Security Council Resolution 1747 broadens the...

A third US soldier pleaded guilty Wednesday for his role in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family in the Mahmudiya area last March. Pfc. Bryan Howard pleaded...

Banned Egyptian opposition group the Muslim Brotherhood announced Wednesday that it plans to boycott next week's referendum on controversial constitutional amendments proposed last year by President Hosni Mubarak [official profile;...

Hazleton, Pennsylvania mayor Lou Barletta testified Wednesday in a Pennsylvania federal court on the constitutionality of two city laws that make it more difficult for illegal immigrants to live...

Thirty-one Egyptian women have been appointed as judges despite ongoing resistance from the nation's conservative Muslims, according to a decree published Wednesday by the head of Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council . Council chief Mukbil Shakir selected the judges...

The Idaho State Senate passed a bill in a 29-6 vote Monday that would block illegal immigrants from using most taxpayer-financed public assistance programs. S-1157 would require that applicants eighteen years of age or older to...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed fraud charges Monday against former executives of Canadian telecommunications manufacturer Nortel Networks , accusing the corporation of misleading investors. The complaint , brought...

The Iraqi judge responsible for sentencing Saddam Hussein to death is not seeking political asylum in Great Britain, according to the Iraqi High Tribunal Sunday. Judge Rauf Rasheed Abdel-Rahman ...