Bolivians voted Sunday to elect 255 delegates to a special assembly that will rewrite the country’s constitution and decide whether to entrench greater power in the states or in the national government. The Movement Toward Socialism Party of President Evo Morales is expected to emerge as the victor and start implementing policies favorable to the [...]

Iraqi officials disclosed Sunday that Saddam Hussein's eldest daughter Raghad and first wife Sajida are named on its most-wanted list along with top Baathists and al Qaeda leaders. Iraqi authorities accuse the two of using secretly-looted money to fund Baathist insurgents. Raghad, now in Jordan, has led efforts to organize her father's legal defense . [...]

The Pentagon released a declassified version of a 2005 review of US prisoner interrogation practices on Friday. The review, conducted by Vice Adm. Albert T. Church , found that while "interrogation policy could have benefited from additional expertise and oversight," no uniformed or civilian leader had encouraged prisoner abuse in Iraq, Afghanistan, or at Guantanamo [...]

Foreign judges who will preside over the trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders arrived in Cambodia on Sunday in preparation for the genocide tribunal that is slated to begin proceedings in mid-2007. The judges, who hail from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Japan, Poland, Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, and the US, will be on hand during [...]

A new so-called “shoot first” (alternatively, "stand your ground") law took effect in Georgia on Saturday allowing state residents to use deadly force to respond to threats in public places with no duty to retreat. The law, which easily passed through the Republican-controlled state legislature beginning with the state Senate in March, also frees shooters [...]

Serbian Defense Minister Zoran Stankovic said Saturday that US and British intelligence agents are helping with the search for indicted UN war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic . The Serbian government holds that it has done everything in its power to locate Mladic, and recently announced that Mladic had been hiding in Serbia until last year, [...]

Thousands of Parisians marched through the city Saturday in a protest against a contentious new immigration law passed by the French Parliament Friday. The new law makes it more difficult for immigrants to obtain residency permits and ends the practice of automatically granting long-term residency papers to illegal immigrants who are able to prove that [...]

Former Mexican president Luis Echeverria was under house arrest Saturday after a Mexican appeals court ruled Friday that it had enough evidence to charge him with genocide in connection with his role in putting down a 1968 student revolt in which dozens, perhaps even hundreds , of protesters were killed by police and military officers. [...]

Brian J. Foley : "The Supreme Court has finally spoken on the military commissions, after four-and-one-half years. Now it's time for Congress to step up – as it should have four-and-one-half years ago, when the Administration first created these commissions and proceeded to build a fake justice system to try suspected 'enemy combatants.' Let's hope [...]

The head of a European inspection team tasked with evaluating the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay said Friday that there may be only 30-40 "real" cases of terrorism there and recommended that the facility be shut down by the end of 2007. Anne-Marie Lizin , the president of the Belgian Senate and special representative [...]