The European Court of Justice (ECJ) found that Greece failed to implement or comply with EU directives in twenty cases in 2005, the most of all European Union member states, according to statistics released Monday by the court. Greece was followed closely by Luxembourg, France, Germany, and Italy, while Sweden boasted the least amount of [...]

Members of the UN Stabilization Force in Haiti have fired on Haitians protesting election results , killing at least one protester and injuring four. Demonstrators supporting presidential candidate Rene Preval erected flaming roadblocks on Monday, demanding that the candidate be declared the winner in last week's election. Preval, a former president and close ally of [...]

An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Sunday confirmed the country's ongoing commitment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened to walk away from the treaty on Saturday. Hamid Reza Asefi said that Iran would not accept the US and Europe using the treaty as a "political instrument," but said Iran "will cooperate [...]

In anticipation of the upcoming Commonwealth Games scheduled to start in Melbourne March 15, the Parliament of Australia has rushed through a bill making domestic deployment of the Australian Defence Force faster and easier in the event of a terrorist attack. The new legislation authorizes the Australian prime minister, defense minister or attorney general to [...]

In its final session before dissolution, the lame-duck Palestinian Parliament Monday gave Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas the authority to appoint a constitutional court empowered to cancel any law approved by the newly-elected Hamas-led assembly considered contrary to the Palestinian Constitution . The move is seen by many to be a concerted effort by the [...]

The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic entered its fifth year Monday as proceedings resumed at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , leaving only 22 working days left before the trial comes to a close. The former Serbian leader has defended himself, after winning an appeal against a court-appointed defense team, [...]

Iraqi officials have suspended business with the Australia Wheat Board (AWB) while an Australian judicial inquiry investigates allegations that AWB paid bribes of up to $300 million to the former government of Saddam Hussein in the oil-for-food scandal . The scandal prompted the resignation of AWB chief executive Andrew Lindbergh last week, after a document [...]

Presidents Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia and Xanana Gusmao of East Timor will meet this week to discuss a report alleging widespread human rights violations during Indonesia's 24-year occupation of East Timor. The meeting, originally to have taken place last month, was postponed after Gusmao delivered the report , issued by the East Timor Commission [...]

UK Chancellor Gordon Brown , widely expected to succeed Tony Blair as British Prime Minister before the next election if not sooner, delivered a major policy address Monday calling for a toughening-up of the Terrorism Bill currently before the UK Parliament. Insisting that the threat of terror had not abated, he said police should be [...]

The trial of former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma for rape began in Johannesburg Monday, though proceedings were cut short when presiding Judge Bernard Ngoepe stepped down from the case. The defense had argued that Ngoepe's issuance of search warrants in relation to separate corruption charges Zuma is facing affected the judge's objectivity, but [...]