Aung San Suu Kyi , the detained pro-democracy leader of Myanmar - formerly Burma - has had her house arrest extended for an unconfirmed time period by the country’s military government, according to a...

Over 100 Ugandan lawyers went on strike Monday to show displeasure with the Ugandan Attorney General and his involvement in possible military attempts to influence the trial of opposition leader Kizza Besigye . The Ugandan Law Society ...

Senegal's foreign minister said Sunday that former Chad dictator Hissene Habre , wanted in Belgium for alleged human rights abuses committed during his 1982-90 rule of the north-central African nation, will have his fate decided by...

Leading Monday's international brief, Kenyan Vice-President Moody Awori has announced that the Kenyan government is outlawing all rallies by the Orange Movement, the anti-constitution coalition that handed Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki a solid defeat in...

Viveca Novak, a TIME magazine reporter who covered the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity, has been asked to testify by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald in the leak investigation which is now...

The trial of Saddam Hussein resumed Monday, but was quickly adjourned until December 5 to allow two of Hussein's co-defendants, including former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, to find replacements for members of the defense team...

In a bid to appeal to Sunni voters, former Iraqi interim prime minister Iyad Allawi , a Shiite, said in an interview with the UK's Observer newspaper Sunday that human...

Citizens in the former Soviet republic of Armenia voted Sunday on constitutional amendments to impose stricter separation of powers between the judicial, executive and legislative branches. The amendments also remove a clause in the Armenian constitution ...

Britain has caused a diplomatic stir by rejecting a proposal advanced by US ambassador to the UN John Bolton to block the upcoming UN budget as a way to press disputed reforms to the beleagured...

Former Philippines election commissioner Virgilio Garcillano emerged from hiding Sunday to clear President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from election fraud allegations. Garcillano has not been seen in public since June, when the opposition released recordings of...