The UN Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to allow UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to open formal negotiations on the establishment of a tribunal to try suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik...

Former Assistant US Attorney Richard Convertino and US State Department Regional Secretary Officer Harry Raymond Smith III were indicted before a Detroit federal grand jury Wednesday on charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and making false declarations...

United Nations officials and armed peacekeepers took former Liberian President Charles Taylor into custody Wednesday in Monrovia after he was transported to Liberia following his capture by Nigerian officials in an attempt...

Johannesburg High Court Judge Willem van der Merwe on Wednesday refused to dismiss rape charges against former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma . The defense filed a motion for dismissal citing a lack of evidence...

The Mississippi Legislature failed to reach a compromise on an abortion ban bill before a Monday night deadline, preventing it from becoming law during the current legislative session. The proposed bill would have prohibited most abortions...

Nikolai Lozovik, Secretary for the Belarus Central Election Commission , announced Tuesday that the third-term inauguration of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko will be delayed. Lukashenko's landslide reelection earlier this month triggered claims of widespread...

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) decided in a 6-0 vote Monday to approve rules that include subject Internet advertising to current campaign finance laws. The rules will regulate only paid advertisements on another person's...

Algimantas Dailide , a retired real estate broker from the Cleveland and Gulfport FL areas, was convicted Monday in his Lithuanian hometown on charges of helping the Nazis commit genocide against Jews...

American officials denied a claim Friday that they planned to release 12 high-ranking prisoners from the US detention facility at Camp Cropper near Baghdad International Airport . Iraqi lawyer Badia Aref had said that US officials...

Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has said that he plans to replace the country's 25-year-old emergency laws with anti-terror legislation. The emergency laws, renewed every three years, are set to expire in May....