Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Monday that the Australian government will put more pressure on the US to expedite the trial of Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks when US Vice President Dick Cheney...
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Australia PM to press Cheney for speedy Hicks trial
UK PM favors stricter gun laws after London teenager deaths
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Japan foreign minister regrets draft US bill urging ‘comfort women’ compensation
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Iraq oil law goes to cabinet for approval
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Hundreds arrested after Guinea martial law declaration: rights groups
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Zimbabwe police defy court order, break up opposition leader’s rally
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Turkish PM warns US on Armenian genocide bill
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Saudi Arabia rights attitude improving, but abuses persist: HRW
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Foreign medics appeal death sentence in Libya AIDS case
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US Marine sentenced to 8 years in Hamdania Iraqi civilian murder case
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday that he is in favor of toughening Britain's gun laws after the deaths of three teenagers in London during the past month. Blair said that the...
Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso Monday rejected a US House of Representatives proposed resolution which urges Japan to apologize to women who were forced into sexual slavery during World War...
Iraqi legislators delivered a draft law to Iraq's cabinet over the weekend which outlines the development and distribution of oil in the country, according to two members of a negotiating committee tasked with developing the resolution. Negotiations...
Hundreds of civilians have been arrested for opposing the Republic of Guinea's government since President Lansana Conte announced martial law last week, according to human rights groups Sunday. Martial law was imposed after Guinea [JURIST...
Police in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare ignored a court order and interfered with a political rally held by opposition group Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Sunday. According to an MDC spokesman, police arrested members...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that the US Congress would damage the American relationship with Turkey if it supports a resolution recognizing the WWI-era killings of Armenians by...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Saturday in a new report on Saudi Arabia that respect for human rights in the Kingdom seemed to be improving but violations and abuses persisted. The report detailed...
An appeal was filed Saturday in the case of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor convicted and sentenced to death by a Libyan court for knowingly infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children,...
US Marine Lance Cpl. Robert B. Pennington was sentenced to eight years in military prison Saturday for his role in the death of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamdania [USMC timeline; JURIST...
