New service regulations will allow US Coast Guard members to wear religious head coverings under their uniform head covers, according to Coast Guard officials quoted by AP Wednesday. The new regulations have already taken...
Ethiopia on Tuesday submitted its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) to the UN Secretary-General. The CTBT bans any nuclear explosion, for testing purposes or otherwise, and was...
An Italian court in Rome will consider whether to try US Army Specialist Mario Lozano this November in connection with the death of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari at an Iraqi checkpoint in March 2005,...
Human Rights Watch denounced Iran on Wednesday for threatening to prosecute the Iranian Center for Defense of Human Rights (CDHR) , a human rights group based in Tehran founded by 2003 Nobel peace laureate...
San Diego city officials and management broke federal securities laws by failing to fulfill their fiduciary duties in administering the city's pension fund for police officers, firefighters, and other public officials, according to an independent audit presented...
The UN Human Rights Council announced Wednesday that it will hold an emergency session on Friday to discuss the ongoing Middle East conflict and its worsening impact on Lebanese citizens. Responding to a special...
The US military has arrested four Iraqi members of an insurgent kidnapping cell in connection with the kidnapping of Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll . Carroll was working in Iraq when she was kidnapped...
The Serbian government has called for the prosecution of Bosnian military officer Atif Dudakovic after a Serbian television station broadcast a video Tuesday that allegedly shows Dudakovic ordering his troops to burn a Serb village in 1995. The...
The Jakarta Court of Appeal has ruled that Indonesian Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh was correct to drop a corruption case against former President Suharto , citing Suharto's inability to speak or write due to permanent brain damage...
Captain Alex Pickands, a US military lawyer prosecuting four US Army soldiers for the March 12 rape of a 14-year old Iraqi girl and the murder of the girl and her family in Mahmudiya ,...