US officials Monday denied a report by Seymour Hersh published in the New Yorker that the Bush administration is drawing up plans for military strikes against Iran that would use nuclear weapons to destroy...
Pro-democracy demonstrators in Nepal marched in the streets again on Monday for a fifth straight day to protest the direct rule government of King Gyanendra , defying curfews , tear gas and rubber bullets....
Charles Taylor , the former president of Liberia indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) , will challenge a prosecutor's motion that seeks to move his trial from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to...
Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling testified in his own defense on Monday, asserting that he is "absolutely innocent" of fraud and conspiracy charges and added...
A UK High Court judge on Monday overturned laws designed to fight the rising number of "sham marriages" within the United Kingdom, ruling that the rules discriminated against immigrants and were incompatible with the...
Protests continued at 32 of France's 84 universities Monday, despite separate announcements from French President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin earlier in the day that the section of a recently-enacted law on...
President Bush defended his decision to declassify intelligence regarding the Iraq war Monday, responding to allegations of wrongdoing revealed during the CIA leak case . Addressing students and foreign policy analysts at Johns Hopkins University, the president...
Large numbers of immigrants and supporters assembled in cities across the United States Monday for a National Day of Action for Immigrant Justice , urging lawmakers to make it easier for the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants...
Ohio Governor Bob Taft is set to face a second round of disciplinary action for failing to report gifts that he received while in office. The Office of Disciplinary Counsel , part of the Ohio Supreme...
Leading Monday's international brief, the European Union Council of Foreign Ministers has voted to suspend economic aid to the Palestinian Authority on the grounds that EU law forbids the funding of terrorist organizations and...