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Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit Saturday responded to a renewed call for it to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in advance of a meeting of treaty members in New York in September by saying it would...

The Army's Criminal Investigation Command announced Friday that it is investigating a civilian lab worker who admitted to falsifying DNA test results in at least one instance, examining over 475 criminal cases dating back almost a decade....

The US Department of Justice granted approval Friday to a Georgia law that would require photo identification to vote in elections. This approval, which is required of Georgia and other states with a...

Responding to US-proposed changes to the draft agreement to be signed at next month's summit on UN reform , General Assembly President Jean Ping has named a core group of countries, including the US,...

Over the past three days, some 1,000 detainees have been released from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in the largest release to date, the US military announced Saturday. According to Central Command, the release "marks...

Supporters of Frances Newton , slated to become the first black woman executed in Texas since the state took over executions from county authorities in 1923, held protests Saturday while her attorneys fight a last-minute battle...

The US government has said that it will appeal a 22-year sentence given to Ahmed Ressam , an Algerian convicted of planning to kill travelers at Los Angeles International Airport on New Year’s eve in 1999....

Sunni Arab negotiators met with Iraqi parliament speaker Hajim al-Hassani Saturday and presented him with a counter-proposal to the Iraqi draft constitution . A meeting with the US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad was also planned for...

Declaration of a state of emergency in the state of Louisiana, Proclamation No. 48 KBB 2005, Governor Kathleen Blanco, August 26, 2005 . Excerpt:SECTION 1: Pursuant to...