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The British government said Monday it plans to argue that Saudi officials accused of torturing Britons should be immune from lawsuits in British civil courts.
Chile's new President Michelle Bachelet is facing her first big political test, one some might envy: too much money from the country's rich copper exports. Zooming copper income has inundated Chile with greenbacks, making the local peso curre
Considered felons by the government, these migrants fear detention, rape and robbery. Police and soldiers hunt them down at railroads, bus stations and fleabag hotels. Sometimes they are deported; more often officers simply take their money.
Offered no firm recommendation on how to redistribute voting rights to reflect the waning of US and European domination, but expressed hope for a deal by the sister groups' annual meetings in Singapore in September.
A high court judge branded the government's system of control orders against terrorism suspects "an affront to justice" yesterday and ruled that they breached human rights laws. The ruling came after a challenge to the first control ord
The Australian media heaped scorn on the performances of 2 senior ministers at an official inquiry into a scandal over huge bribes paid to Saddam Hussein's Iraq by the nation's monopoly wheat exporter. "I don't know" and "I
U.S. motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson Inc. opened its first authorized dealership in China amid hopes its rumbling bikes will strike a chord with wealthy Chinese.
"The legal constraints upon us have to be set against an enemy that adheres no constraints whatsoever, but an enemy so swift to insist that we do in every particular, and that makes life very difficult for the forces of democracy," said the
India's army chief said the country has taken steps against intrusive photographs of strategic installations shown on Google's satellite image service. "We concede that these satellite images do compromise our sensitive and strategic sit
President Hugo Chávez is spending billions of dollars of his country's oil windfall on pet projects abroad, aimed at setting up his leftist government as a political counterpoint to the conservative Bush administration in the region
Opponents of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra welcomed the premier's sudden announcement that he would step down in a bid to reunite a nation divided by weeks of protests. Public anger erupted over his family's $1.9-billion tax-free sale of
A fatwa issued by Egypt’s top religious authority, which forbids the display of statues has art-lovers fearing it, could be used by Islamic extremists as an excuse to destroy Egypt’s historical heritage. [Start with the Sphinx.]
A Chinese government-backed holding company, has agreed to buy into a major Western Australia iron ore project in a deal potentially worth more than $1.2 billion US dollars. Agreed purchase of over 6 billion tons of magnetite
Australia and China signed a nuclear safeguards deal that set the stage for huge uranium exports to Beijing for its power industry, but Canberra said the trade was unlikely to start for some years. China is expected to build 40 to 50 nuclear power pl
Lebanon sank deeper into political crisis after anti-Syrian ministers walked out of a cabinet meeting in protest at the presence of pro-Damascus President Emile Lahoud, who is under mounting pressure to resign. An economic crisis has pushed public de
President Viktor Yushchenko's poison-scarred face and leadership during Ukraine's Orange Revolution won him standing ovations in the West. At home, the applause and adoration ended long ago. Yushchenko's dismal showing in Ukraine's pa
This is the other front of Pakistan's widening civil unrest, not the tribal areas along the Afghan border where the US would like the government to press a campaign against Islamic militants, but the restive province of Baluchistan, home to an in
The target date for compulsory ID cards in Britain was pushed back to January 2010 when the House of Lords accepted a compromise deal with Prime Minister Tony Blair's government.
Saudi Arabia is working secretly on a nuclear program, with help from Pakistani experts, the German magazine Cicero reports. Saudi bar codes can be found on half of Pakistan's nuclear weapons "because it is Saudi Arabia which ultimate
On his last visit to Iran, Canadian-based blogger Hossein Derakhshan was detained and interrogated, then forced to sign a letter of apology for his blog writings before being allowed to leave the country. Compared to others, Derakhshan is lucky.
An Afghan man who had faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity has been released from prison after the case was dropped, the justice minister said. Hundreds of clerics, students and others chanting "Death to Christians!
Belarussian courts jailed for up to 15 days on public order offences more than 150 mostly young protesters detained when police broke up rallies against a presidential election judged unfair by the West. No defense lawyers were present and the verdic
Complaining of unpaid wages, and demanding better conditions, the labourers marched out of the cramped, stifling dormitories where they are corralled 25 to a room in violent protests which caused $1m worth of damage. They overturned cars and smashed
Thousands of Belarusians defied a massive show of force by the hard-line government, protesting in streets swarming with riot police and gathering peacefully in a park to denounce President Lukashenko after a disputed election returned him to power.
In the most audacious public challenge to the man who has just been re-elected after running Belarus with an iron rod for 12 years, his challenger told a rally: "I declare the creation of a Popular Movement for the Liberation of Belarus."
The EU and US are to impose sanctions against Belarus over an election that gave President Lukashenko a landslide victory and 3rd term. The opposition says 500 people were detained after riot police broke up a 5-day long protest against the poll.
Basque separatist group ETA declared a permanent ceasefire in its struggle for independence from Spain. A ceasefire would be the first step in a long-awaited peace process with ETA, which has killed 850 people since 1968 in its fight to carve an inde
Russia and China pledged to cooperate more closely in producing oil and gas, and the Russian president vowed to go forward with a much-anticipated pipeline to carry Siberian oil to fuel China's booming economy.
Taiwan’s independence-minded government has started to remove statues of the nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek from its military bases in an effort to rid its armed forces of a symbol of dictatorship and Chinese unification.
Pakistan successfully tested a nuclear-capable cruise missile for the second time, the military said. "The stealthy Babur is a low-flying, terrain hugging missile with high maneuverability, pinpoint accuracy and radar avoidance features," i
