Member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are urging the United States to drop its opposition to a third term for current Director General Mohamed ElBaradei . The US has become increasingly displeased with ElBaradei due to what the US sees as a lack of cooperation on Iraq and Iran and was reported [...]

The US Senate unanimously approved a measure Thursday evening that would bar government agencies from using taxpayer funds to produce video press releases disguised as real news. The amendment , whose purpose is to "prohibit the use of funds by any Federal agency to produce a prepackaged news story without including in such story a [...]

Leading Friday's international brief, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque announced Friday that Cuba rejected the UN Human Rights Commission resolution calling on Cuba to allow a special envoy to visit the island nation to investigate abuses. Cuba has been subject to an annual condemnation from the UN Human Rights Commission, but has never allowed [...]

The hopes of Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for a presidential run in the 2006 national election remained uncertain Friday after a strange turn of events Thursday that saw current Mexican president Vicente Fox do an apparent about-face on the possibility of a pardon on criminal charges related to his alleged involvement in [...]

In Friday's environmental law news, a number of environmental groups have filed a complaint in federal court in San Francisco that alleges 14 government agencies have violated the US Energy Policy Act , which requires that 75 percent of the new cars and light trucks they purchase run on alternative fuel, such as natural gas, [...]

Human Rights Watch said in a new report Friday that governments in both North America and Europe have negligently relied upon promises of humane treatment in order to transfer terror suspects to states with well-established records of torture. The 91-page report entitled Stiil at Risk claims that countries such as the United States, United Kingdom [...]

Florida circuit judge George Greer ordered the Florida Department of Children and Families on Thursday to release the records of its investigation into allegations that Terri Schiavo was abused prior to her death. Greer ruled that DCF must release the records to the public no later than Monday, noting that the public has an interest [...]

Twelve detainees were injured Thursday night when a fight broke out at the US Camp Bucca prison camp in southern Iraq triggered by the murder of an inmate. The US military confirmed the fight among detainees in a statement and said that guards had since regained control of the camp compound. Guards were not attacked [...]

Prosecutors have dropped objections to the release of four high ranking Serbian officials ahead of their trial for war crimes, allowing them to return to Belgrade as early as today. The four include Milan Milutinovic, a former Serbian president under Slobodan Milosevic, along with Nikola Sainovic, Dragoljub Ojdanic and Vladimir Lazarevic. It is common for [...]

Two high-ranking but unidentified United Nations officials have been cited in the criminal complaint released Thursday against South Korean businessman Tongsun Park for his involvement in the Iraq oil-for-food scandal . Park is accused of accepting millions of dollars from the Iraqi government while operating in the US as an unregistered agent for Saddam Hussein. [...]