An Uzbek court Thursday sentenced journalist Saidzhakhon Zainabitdinov to seven years in prison on charges of conspiring with "terrorists," defaming the state, and religious extremism for providing information to foreign media regarding last year's violent uprising in...

Three people were killed Tuesday in election-related violence in Haiti as citizens waited for hours at voting stations to participate in the first national poll since former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was...

A report released Tuesday by the non-partisan electionline.org monitoring group says that over half of US states have failed to meet the January 1, 2006 deadline set by the 2002 Help America Vote...

US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged in testimony before the US Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday that corruption is a serious problem in Iraq, saying that "it's critically important that be attacked...

EU Justice Commissioner and European Commission Vice-President Franco Frattini intervened in the growing Islamic cartoons controversy Thursday, calling newspaper publication of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad "somewhat imprudent," while acknowledging that freedom of expression was a "'founding...

Four advocacy groups on Thursday filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on behalf of Haitian citizens, alleging that the US violated Haitian sovereignty by illegally preventing the flow of financial...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked a federal judge considering a shutdown of the BlackBerry wireless email network to exempt government workers who rely on the technology. The DOJ submitted a list of...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a stay on the execution of Florida inmate and convicted murderer Arthur Rutherford , who claims that the Florida execution procedure violates Eighth Amendment guarantees against cruel and...

The US Second Circuit and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals ruled in two separate decisions Tuesday that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act is unconstitutional because it does not provide an exception...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a report disclosed Tuesday that a set of documents now possessed by Iran is unequivocally intended for use in manufacturing nuclear weapons. The documents, which allegedly explain how "enriched,...