Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein could face trial for war crimes within two months according to comments made Tuesday by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in a CNN interview. Talabani said that the Iraqi people...
Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel has said US officials may not be welcome to visit Venezuela after the president of the Venezuelan Supreme Court Omar Mora had his tourist...
Wire services are reporting that a former FBI official is claiming to be "Deep Throat", the Washington insider who leaked secrets about the Watergate coverup to the Washington Post that eventually led to President Richard Nixon's 1974 resignation, according...
Pope Benedict XVI stepped into an ongoing political fray Monday by backing calls for Italian voters to abstain from a June referendum on embryo research, artificial insemination, and egg and sperm donation. At issue in the referendum...
The US Supreme Court Tuesday overturned the conviction of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm for destroying documents related to the Enron collapse, citing faulty jury instructions. According to the Court, the instructions failed to convey properly the elements of...
US military officials have acknowledged that the arrest Monday of Sunni leader Mohsen Abdel Hamid , head of the Iraqi Islamic Party , was a mistake, and that US forces had confused Hamid with someone else. According...
The Illinois House and Senate sent a bill to Governor Rod Blagojevich early Tuesday seeking to lower doctors' medical malpractice insurance rates by capping medical malpractice damage awards. SB 475 ...
China Tuesday publicly accused Ching Cheong, chief China correspondent for Singapore's Straits Times newspaper , of spying for "foreign agencies". According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry , "Ching admitted that in recent years he engaged...
French President Jacques Chirac has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin just two days after French voters turned down the proposed European constituton in a referendum that...
The BBC is reporting that on the twelfth day of verdict-reading, a Moscow court has sentenced Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky , former CEO of Russian oil company Yukos, to nine...