Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi , facing possible indictment for allegedly bribing his former lawyer to give false testimony in two criminal cases, told supporters at a campaign rally in Verona Saturday that the...
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Influential radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has parted ways with his partners in the biggest Iraqi parliamentary bloc by rejecting the federal system described in the new Iraqi constitution . Al-Sadr told...
A Saturday protest by Nigerian Muslims in the northeastern city of Maiduguru over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad led to sectarian violence in which at least 15 people were killed, 15 Christian churches...
The government of Yemen has announced it will prosecute the editors of three privately owned Yemeni newspapers, the Yemen Observer , al-Ra'i el-Am and al-Huriya, for offending Islam after the newspapers reprinted caricatures of...
Saddam Hussein chief defense counsel Khalil Dulaimi and an associate told reporters Sunday that Saddam and his seven co-defendants would begin a hunger strike Monday to protest the legitimacy of the proceedings against them but shortly...
Britain's Ministry of Defense has said it will launch an investigation into video images published Sunday in the British News of the World tabloid which show British soldiers beating four young Iraqi men they...
Current and former intelligence officials and private sector sources, speaking anonymously, have said that the National Security Agency warrantless surveillance program monitoring communication coming from outside the US to US residents has yielded few actionable results,...
Thousands of Lebanese Muslims angered at caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September and last week were reprinted in other European newspapers protested outside the Danish...
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki confirmed Sunday that Iran had ceased cooperating with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) , allowing the country to resume uranium enrichment without being subject to IAEA inspections. The move, ordered Saturday...
The Saddam Hussein trial resumed briefly Sunday under new Kurdish chief judge Ra'uf Rasheed Abdel-Rahman but was adjourned again after Hussein, defense lawyers, and two co-defendants left the courtroom protesting the earlier removal of...
