The UN Security Council on Tuesday imposed 12-month sanctions on three Ivorian peace opponents. Ble Goude, Eugene Djue, and rebel commander Fofie Kouakou will have their assets frozen and restrictions placed on their travel. Goude...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, soldiers of the Royal Nepalese Army fired indiscriminately into a crowd of protesters who were urging citizens to boycott the municipal elections held throughout Nepal, the first elections in seven years. The weapons-fire...

Lawyers for two detainees being held at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay say that over half of the terror suspects being held there are not alleged to have committed terrorist acts against the US...

The trial of five Turkish journalists accused of insulting Turkey's judiciary and trying to influence the courts through their articles has been adjourned to April 11. The court ordered the postponement Tuesday after a fight erupted...

Beth Sabilia, the mayor of New London, Connecticut, has proposed a compromise for a group of four homeowners involved in the eminent domain case that went before the US Supreme Court last year. In Kelo v....

A Polish woman who claims she was rendered blind when she was refused an abortion has brought her case before the European Court of Human Rights . Alicja Tysiac, 35-year old mother of three, has filed a...

Election Reform: What's Changed, What Hasn't and Why 2005-2006, electionline.org, February 7, 2006 [report finding that US states have failed to meet deadlines set by the 2002 Help America Vote Act for updating voting machines and voter databases and possibly...

US senators voted 98-1 late Tuesday in favor of allowing debate to proceed on a controversial asbestos bill that would supplant asbestos-related litigation with claims against a $140 billion compensation fund. Asbestos-injured workers and their families...

Three people were killed Tuesday in election-related violence in Haiti as citizens waited for hours at voting stations to participate in the first national poll since former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was...

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...