The Pentagon has released 32 new or recently uncensored images of the coffins of US soldiers and agreed to quickly fulfill any future Freedom of Information Act requests for images of US war casualties. The release...
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Iraqi leaders Friday put off a high-level constitutional meeting for two days while the Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly convened in an emergency session and consultations between major players continued. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani had called...
Updating an earlier story, the US is now reportedly engaged in discussions with three countries about the transfer of detainees currently being held in Guantanamo Bay back to their home jurisdictions. A US agreement with Saudi...
At an emergency summit Thursday, African Union member states reaffirmed their commitment to a plan for UN Security Council reform that rejects a competing plan by the G4 nations . African states voted 46 to...
US ambassador Joseph LeBaron was called Thursday to Mauritania's foreign ministry in Nouakchott by the Military Council for Justice and Democracy, a militia group that has taken control of the West African nation. LeBaron met with leaders...
Mahmud Faruq Brent, a Southern Maryland resident, was charged in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York Thursday with aiding and abetting a terrorist organization. According to prosecutors, Brent openly bragged about his...
In a report issued Friday, human rights group Amnesty International claimed that the abuses currently taking place in China are directly related to the country's preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games to be held...
The Indonesian government began its criminal pollution case Friday against Denver-based gold giant Newmont Mining Corp. and its American regional chief executive Richard Ness. The government claims that studies prove Newmont placed arsenic and mercury...
In a victory for Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf , the country's Supreme Court Thursday blocked a proposal by the Islamist-controlled North-West Frontier Province to introduce a set of controversial morals laws to be enforced...
The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday granted a one-year stay of its June ruling that the Quebec government can't block people from obtaining private insurance for health care procedures covered under the public system....
