Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki Monday accepted the resignations of Education Minister George Saitoti and Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi in a televised announcement in connection with their role in two separate corruption scandals...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) found that Greece failed to implement or comply with EU directives in twenty cases in 2005, the most of all European Union member states, according to statistics...

Members of the UN Stabilization Force in Haiti have fired on Haitians protesting election results , killing at least one protester and injuring four. Demonstrators supporting presidential candidate Rene Preval erected flaming roadblocks on...

An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Sunday confirmed the country's ongoing commitment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened to walk away from the treaty on Saturday....

In anticipation of the upcoming Commonwealth Games scheduled to start in Melbourne March 15, the Parliament of Australia has rushed through a bill making domestic deployment of the Australian Defence Force...

In its final session before dissolution, the lame-duck Palestinian Parliament Monday gave Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas the authority to appoint a constitutional court empowered to cancel any law approved by the...

The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic entered its fifth year Monday as proceedings resumed at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , leaving only 22 working days left before...

Iraqi officials have suspended business with the Australia Wheat Board (AWB) while an Australian judicial inquiry investigates allegations that AWB paid bribes of up to $300 million to the former government of Saddam Hussein...

Presidents Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia and Xanana Gusmao of East Timor will meet this week to discuss a report alleging widespread human rights violations during Indonesia's 24-year occupation of East Timor. The meeting, originally...

UK Chancellor Gordon Brown , widely expected to succeed Tony Blair as British Prime Minister before the next election if not sooner, delivered a major policy address Monday calling for a toughening-up of the...