Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said Friday that he establish a body to draft a new Ukrainian constitution and will propose amendments to clarify the distribution of power between the presidency, parliament, and the cabinet. In remarks...

US Assistant Attorney General Wan J. Kim has resigned as head of the Justice Department's embattled Civil Rights Division . Kim's resignation, announced Thursday, is effective the end of the month. Attorney General Alberto...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has refused to block organic food company Whole Foods Market from buying rival grocer Wild Oats Markets . US District Judge Paul Friedman refused to issue an...

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte will serve as Switzerland's ambassador to Argentina when her term as ICTY prosecutor expires at the end of the year, the Swiss Foreign...

A US Marines investigating officer has recommended that murder charges be dropped against Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum for his role in the killing and suspected cover-up of the death of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha [USMC timeline;...

Pakistan Muslim League and Nawaz Sharif v. Federation of Pakistan, Supreme Court of Pakistan, August 23, 2007 [ruling that former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif can return to the country, effectively ending the 10-year exile imposed after Sharif was deposed...

An Austrian writer wanted for denying the Holocaust was arrested Thursday by Spanish police in Malaga, Spain. Gerd Honsik was convicted of neo-Nazi activities in his native Austria in 1992 and sentenced to 1 1/2 years in...

The man who shot former Alabama Governor George Wallace in 1972 will be released from prison this year, after serving 35 years of a 53-year sentence, a prison official said Thursday. Arthur Bremer is scheduled...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday agreed to reconsider its June ruling that the military cannot seize and imprison civilians lawfully residing in the United States and detain...

Saddam Hussein's cousin and former Iraqi defense minister Ali Hassan al-Majid , also known as Chemical Ali, personally killed at least 15 men suspected of participating in a Shi'a uprising in southern Iraq...