A report released Tuesday by the non-partisan electionline.org monitoring group says that over half of US states have failed to meet the January 1, 2006 deadline set by the 2002 Help America Vote...
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged in testimony before the US Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday that corruption is a serious problem in Iraq, saying that "it's critically important that be attacked...
Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, the European Commission (EC) has announced that it will not be appealing the 2005 European Court of First Instance ruling that held the UK could revise its 2005-07...
A French court on Tuesday refused to hear a lawsuit launched to prevent a French newspaper from publishing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have caused protests and violence across the globe. The suit,...
A document released to an Australian commission set up to investigate alleged Australian connections to the oil-for-food scandal Tuesday shows that Saddam Hussein personally assisted the Australian Wheat Board (AWB)...
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court on Tuesday ordered the release of Moroccan-born Mounir al-Motassadeq , who was convicted last year in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks ,...
Officials from over 100 countries are meeting in Geneva this week to discuss strengthening a United Nations treaty which controls the use of tobacco products worldwide. The two-week conference is underway to determine further provisions for the World Health...
Slovak Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda has decided to abandon an agreement with the Vatican , prompting a major breakdown in the Slovak government with the Christian Democrat Movement (KDH)...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday criticized a Constitutional Court ruling that halted the court-martial of opposition leader Kizza Besigye on charges of possessing illegal firearms. Museveni vowed to fight the court ruling...
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has promised to target corruption in governments that deal with the bank and in the organization itself during a worldwide staff meeting. As an example, Wolfowitz cited Kenya, from which the World...