Iran said Thursday that it is working on a new proposal to negotiate with the West regarding its nuclear program, expressing an interest in negotiating with countries other than Great Britain, France and Germany. The three core...

The chief observer of the European Union Election Observation Mission to Ethiopia 2005 (EU EOM) said Thursday that the country's May 15 parliamentary elections did not meet international voting standards. In the first EU report released since...

Two media rights groups called for US Middle East military commander General John Abizaid to release a Reuters journalist being held at the Abu Ghraib prison facility in Iraq unless the military can provide a valid...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has denied the request of former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers' request to serve his 25-year prison sentence in a low-security facility near his Mississippi home, placing him...

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) ruled Thursday by a seven to one margin that Germany's early parliamentary election scheduled for next month can go ahead. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder purposefully lost a vote...

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke Wednesday denounced a statement issued by the UN's Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak urging the UK to refrain from deporting Islamic radicals for fear that they will...

The US has proposed over 750 amendments to the United Nations draft agreement that 175 countries are expected to sign during a UN General Assembly summit on poverty and global security scheduled for next...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Wednesday praised an extradition agreement between the US and Colombia which forces Colombian drug traffickers to face trials in the US. Gonzales spoke at a press conference in Bogota with Mario...

Iraqi government spokesman Laith Kubba said Thursday that a final version of the Iraqi constitution has been completed and that the document will be approved later today. A National Assembly spokesman said...

Nine northeastern US states are working on a plan to cap and then reduce the level of greenhouse gas emissions from power facilities, an agreement which would see the states breaking with President Bush, who earlier this summer rejected...