Iraqi President Jalal Talabani welcomed a diverse group of leaders to his Baghdad residence on Sunday in an effort to sort out the remaining stumbling blocks in the Iraq constitution . Talabani also...
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In a speech to the American Bar Association annual meeting in Chicago this weekend, US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens noted "serious flaws'' in the American capital punishment system, though he stopped short of...
Haroon Rashid Aswat , a British man who was arrested by Zambian police last week, was returned to the UK on Sunday to face charges that he made phone calls to the bombers in preparation for...
Sixty years after deadly atomic blasts hit the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , thousands rallied across the US over the weekend to call for a ban on nuclear weapons. Protesters gathered in New Mexico, Tennessee, California,...
Three days after a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned a lower court ruling and struck down a Hawaiian school policy of only admitting native Hawaiians , nearly 15,000 people...
Benon Sevan , the former head of the UN Oil-for-Food Program , resigned from his current honorary position at the UN Sunday one day before an independent panel investigating corruption charges and program...
British police Sunday charged three more individuals, including two alleged bombers, in the ongoing investigation into the July 21 attempted terror bombings in London. Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27, and Ramzi Mohammed, 23 were charged with conspiracy to murder, attempted...
Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told reporters Saturday that he would consider invoking administrative detention - traditionally used against Palestinians, allowing them to be held without charge or trial - against all extremists, including Jews, who...
The US ambassador to Iraq met with interim Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari Saturday, warned that the US would not tolerate a new Iraqi constitution that would oppress women or other religious sects. Zalmay Khalilzad ...
AP is reporting that Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resigned unexpectedly Sunday to protest next week's Gaza pullout . Netanyahu cited the danger of terror operations that could be launched against Israel from the ceded territory if the...
