Hong Kong's Legislative Council passed a controversial surveillance law 32-0 Sunday, despite more than five days of deliberations and a vote boycott by 25 members of the pro-democracy opposition. The Interception of Communications and Surveillance...

Chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said Sunday that Iran will continue to expand its uranium enrichment program despite the UN Security Council resolution setting an August 31 deadline for the country to halt nuclear...

A military hearing for the five US Army soldiers now charged in connection with the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family in Mahmudiya began Sunday with...

US governors attending the annual meeting of the National Governors Association that got under way Saturday in Charleston, South Carolina, are opposing a bill in Congress that would allow the president to take over the...

A Bolivian constitutional convention championed by President Evo Morales was set to open Sunday with the goal of rewriting the country's constitution . Morales and his Movement Towards Socialism party have...

Mexico leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has vowed to continue with street demonstrations after the Federal Electoral Tribunal on Saturday rejected his request for a full ballot-by-ballot recount [JURIST...

Draft resolution for a Middle East ceasefire presented by France and the United States, UN Security Council, August 5, 2006:The Security Council,PP1. Recalling all its previous resolutions on Lebanon, in particular resolutions 425 (1978), 426 (1978), 520 (1982), 1559 (2004),...

Mexican presidential election recount rulings, Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación, August 5, 2006 [rejecting a request by leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for a full ballot-by-ballot recount of all votes cast in the July 2...

Israeli security forces late Saturday detained the speaker of the Palestinian parliament after surrounding his home in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Aziz Dweik is a senior member...

Miller-Jenkins v. Miller-Jenkins, Vermont Supreme Court, August 4, 2006 [ruling that Vermont civil union laws govern a child custody battle between a now-separated lesbian couple who were legally joined in a civil union in Vermont, despite conflicting decisions by Virginia...