The Spanish government has announced that it is granting some 700,000 work permits to previously-illegal immigrants who could prove that they had lived and worked in Spain for at least six months. As of Saturday, the final day immigrants...

An Israeli newspaper reported Monday that senior officers in the Israel Defense Forces want to pre-emptively detain a number of Israeli extremists before the planned Gaza Strip pullout and evacuation of settlements this summer. On...

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced Sunday that he will postpone the release of 400 Palestinian prisoners, alleging that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is not upholding his promise to pressure Palestinian militants into a ceasefire. Abbas...

New legal documents filed by convicted spy Jonathan Pollard include allegations that Pollard has been tortured during his US imprisonment. Pollard was arrested in 1985 and was convicted of spying for Israel while he was a civilian...

The trial of two Rwandan men accused of war crimes during the 1994 Rwandan genocide begins Monday in Brussels. Half-brothers Etienne Nzabonimana and Samuel Ndashyikirwa are accused of helping the Hutu militia and are charged under Belgium's...

A week after Nepal's King Gyanendra lifted a state of emergency , the country's seven political parties have joined together to present a common agenda that demands a return to democracy and constitutional reforms...

Egypt's upper house of parliament Sunday approved an amendment to the Egyptian Constitution setting regulations for Egypt's first multi-candidate presidential election despite fear in some quarters that the guidelines would exclude serious contenders from running. Egyptians have typically...

The families of ten British soldiers killed in Iraq announced Sunday that they are filing suit against Prime Minister Tony Blair's government in the International Criminal Court for war crimes. Their group, Military Families Against the War,...

Senator Richard Lugar , chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , said Sunday that he expects a party-line vote this week to approve the controversial nomination of John Bolton as US ambassador to the...

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi headed to Moscow Sunday to attend ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, despite the absence of a peace treaty formally ending World War II hostilities between...