Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi promised Friday that an investigation into allegations of fraud in the May 15 election, which left Zenawi in power, would be "totally transparent and fair." Zenawi said the investigation, which includes international...

The Turkish parliament has re-approved amendments to the country's new European Union oriented penal code, overriding an earlier veto by President Ahmet Necdet Sezer . The new code includes the first major...

At a parliamentary hearing on relief efforts, Indonesian lawmakers Friday assailed the government's response to the December 26 tsunami , arguing there had been no "significant progress" and demanding a response to claims of corruption. Six months...

In the wake of a June 6 state court ruling that upheld the November 2004 election of Democratic Governor Christine Gregoire , the Washington State Republican Party Friday paid the state Democrats $15,000 to...

Iranian daily newspaper Etemaad is reporting that the Iranian Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a man, known only as Vahid, sentenced to have his eyes surgically gouged out for throwing battery acid in the face...

The Irish Public Prosecution Service has dropped charges against Anthony Joseph Donegan, suspected of providing the car used in the Omagh car bombing in 1998. A spokesman for the PPS said Wednesday that the "test for prosecution...

The US-led Combined Review and Release Board created in August 2004 to expedite the screening process for detainees taken into custody in Iraq by US and Iraqi forces has so far approved the outright release of...

Saddam Hussein's family has approached a leading London media lawyer about suing the Sun for publishing secretly-taken pictures of the former Iraqi leader in his underwear. Hussein's Iraqi lawyers also threatened to sue...

Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said Tuesday he would begin discussions with Attorney General Rory Brady about bringing London before the European Court of Human Rights for failing to release files about car...

A new report by a UN Commission of Experts says Indonesia's efforts to examine atrocities committed in East Timor in 1999 was "manifestly inadequate" and show "scant respect for or conformity to relevant international standards,"...