A overwhelming majority of referendum voters in Ecuador Sunday appear to have approved the convening of a constitutional assembly to rewrite that nation's constitution , according to a Cedatos-Gallup exit poll. A plan initiated...

Russian police arrested dozens of protesters Sunday before and during a rally in St. Petersburg opposing the policies of Russian president Vladimir Putin for a second straight day. The arrests followed the detention of some 200 anti-Putin protesters [JURIST...

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Friday banned the Social Democratic Party of Russia for failure to follow regulations. The Court upheld a judgment in favor of the Russian Registration...

The White House said Saturday it would cooperate with the US Senate Judiciary Committee in choosing an independent consultant to recover lost administration emails wanted to the Senate's US Attorney firing probe. On Wednesday, US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman...

Russian police Saturday arrested about 200 activists, including former chess great and liberal United Civil Front leader Garry Kasparov , for participating in an anti-Putin protest in central Moscow. More than 9,000...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Friday that he is dispatching UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicholas Michel to assist the Lebanese government and "the country's other political leaders to end their political impasse and...

An Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) report released Saturday concludes that a US Marine Corps Special Forces unit under the command of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) violated international humanitarian...

Former US vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , convicted in March of perjury and obstruction of justice , will be appealing the verdict according to documents filed in court Friday. Libby's defense team...

The Bush administration Friday officially proposed amendments to the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that would subject more people to electronic surveillance within the United States. The proposed legislation, submitted a week...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) took federal prosecutors' political activities and connections to the conservative Federalist Society into account in deciding whether to retain or dismiss them, according to documents released Friday by the...