Iowa Governor Tom Vislack Monday made good on a promise to restore voting rights to convicted felons once their sentences has been served. Last month he announced he would sign an executive order to automatically...

Senior Sunni clerics will soon announce plans to issue a religious edict, or fatwa, encouraging Sunni Muslims in Iraq to join the political process and support the drafting of a new Iraqi constitution, according to Adnan Dulaimi, head of...

A spokesman for the Iranian Judiciary Tuesday denied reports that a man convicted of blinding another person would have his eyes surgically removed, saying the country would not carry out such a punishment. Earlier, an...

The province of Quebec asked the Supreme Court of Canada on Monday for an 18-month stay of its ruling that overturned a ban on private health insurance . The court found in favor of a Montreal...

Indonesia Tuesday formally rejected a UN recommendation that an international tribunal investigate and try those accused of human rights violations in its former province of East Timor during the independence troubles there in 1999. While...

In an interview with USA Today, President Bush Monday called for special-interest groups to "tone down the heated rhetoric" over the new US Supreme Court vacancy created by Friday's retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor and...

The Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday that the US Congress should "correct its mistaken ways" and "stop interfering in the normal commercial exchanges" between the two nations in response to House objections to a...

Lawyers for the state of Israel have argued in court papers filed with the Israeli High Court that moving a portion of the fully-constructed Security Fence as requested by Palestinian villagers is precluded by cost, said to...

Philippines President Gloria Arroyo said in a statement Tuesday that she "welcomed" the endorsement of an impeachment complaint against her, eager for a chance to refute allegations of voter fraud in the 2004 national election. A controversial...

A member of Swaziland's Parliament says that King Mswati III has sent the country's proposed Constitution , adopted by the House of Assembly and Senate in June back to the country's parliament [official...