A US military investigator has cleared a US Marine of murder charges in connection with the deaths of two Iraqi prisoners. 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano stood accused of killing the two prisoners execution-style on April...

As anti-US violence continued for a fourth day in Afghanistan on Saturday, Afghan Chief Justice Fazl Hadi Shinwari called for an American apology and punishment for those responsible if recent allegations about desecration of the...

A spokesman for new Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's Dawa Party said Saturday that arrest warrants have been issued for two former cabinet ministers in former Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's government. Ex-Transport Minister Louei Hatim Sultan...

Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party has won the most seats in Saturday's election for a special assembly charged with considering proposed amendments to the island country's constitution, a delicate task in light of...

The head of Uzbekistan's Independent Human Rights Organization was quoted Saturday as saying that some 200 people were killed in the eastern city of Andijan Friday when government forces backed by tanks opened fire on demostrators in...

Officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced Saturday that the country's legislature has adopted a new constitution to replace the transitional document agreed to in South Africa in 2002...

A gathering of some 3000 Egyptian judges in Cairo Friday followed up threats first made in April and agreed by consensus to boycott the upcoming Egyptian national election unless the government gives them full and independent oversight...

Santiago v. Rumsfeld, et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, May 13, 2005 [upholding the US military's power to issue emergency stop-loss orders to keep soldiers on active duty beyond the time set in their service...

Following up a 3-sentence order issued early last month , a panel of the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Friday issued a full ruling upholding the US military's power to issue emergency "stop-loss" orders to...

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Friday in a statement that after the Senate completes deliberations next week on a highway bill he will put forward the hitherto-blocked nominations of Judges Priscilla Owen and Janice...