A Spanish National Court judge Friday blocked two Basque political parties from fielding candidates in Spain's March general elections, ruling that the parties were connected to ETA , the armed Basque separatist movement....

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Friday ruled that the "cap-and-trade" policy, to be implemented in 2010 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate electrical power plant mercury emissions,...

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Saturday that he supports a proposed law that would allow most members of Saddam Hussein's defunct Baath Party to return to their old positions in government. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri...

Turkey needs to lift its ban on women wearing headscarves at universities in order to improve the country's chances of accession into the European Union (EU) , Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said Saturday. Turkey's Grand National...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that Turkey violated the human rights of two men when police subjected them to inhuman and degrading treatment and then failed to properly investigate their allegations of abuse....

A Sudanese aid worker formerly held at Guantanamo Bay was among a group of ex-prisoners that demanded money and an apology from the US government Saturday for physical and mental torture they say they were subjected...

Jerome Kerviel, a former trader at the French bank Societe Generale , turned himself in to French police Saturday in connection with an investigation of what caused the bank to lose more than $7 billion. Kerviel has been...

Vidoje Blagojevic , former commander of the Bratunac Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army, was transferred to Norway Friday to serve the remainder of his 15-year sentence for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica...

Four professors at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh were acquitted Monday of inciting students during campus protests which caused the interim government to impose a curfew in August 2007. Eleven students...

Lawyers for the east African state of Djibouti Monday asked the International Court of Justice to allow the country to take over a French murder probe into the death of French judge Bernard Borrel [advocacy website, in...