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A government agency's annual report on violations of religious rights added Egypt on Thursday to the list of the world's 14 worst violators.
A U.S. government agency has added Egypt to its list of the world's worst violators of religious rights.
A U.S. government agency has added Egypt to its list of the world's worst violators of religious rights.
Gene Kramer, who covered many of the Cold War's hot spots during almost a half-century with The Associated Press, died Wednesday at age 83. He had been in deteriorating health.
Saudi Arabia and China are among 13 countries a U.S. government panel named on Thursday as serious violators of religious freedom.
President Barack Obama praised representatives of a women's organization whose members have been beaten by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's police force and face court trials for challenging Zimbabwe's government. He said their grassroots efforts could improve the African country.
Human Rights Watch says conditions in Cuba have not improved under Raul Castro and in some ways are worse than they had been when his brother Fidel was president.
Finally, Gen. Casimir Pulaski became an American citizen on Friday, 230 years after the Polish nobleman died fighting for the as yet-unborn United States.
President Barack Obama's first Asian trip as president will include Japan, Singapore, China and South Korea, but not Indonesia, where he spent four years of his life.
Germany got back two 400-year-old law books Tuesday from a former American soldier who took them as souvenirs from a salt mine storage vault in the closing months of World War II.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is considering action against Honduras in the wake of the ouster of its president, a move that could lead to suspension of millions in U.S. development aid, a senior State Department official said Thursday.
Human rights groups working to end the dying in Darfur fear for the survival of 2.5 million people huddled in refugee camps if the Obama administration doesn't put on record its plans to bring security to them.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton described democracy and human rights as "a core pillar of American foreign policy" and said she and President Barack Obama would bring them up again in Egypt next week.
Hundreds of thousands of women, girls and babies have been raped during 12 years of conflict in eastern Congo, victims of a weapon of war that almost always goes unpunished, senators were told Wednesday.
A congressionally backed panel said Friday that religious freedoms were deteriorating in Russia, Turkey and four other nations that were added to a watch list of countries where people's rights to worship as they please or not to worship at all are at risk.
The big spending bill that President Barack Obama signed this week includes a prohibition on most exports of cluster bombs, which can kill for years after their use in wars.
President-elect Barack Obama should make preventing genocide and mass atrocities a priority for his government and establish a procedure to determine when the threat of genocide is emerging, a task force led by former Cabinet officials recommended Monday.
Long held U.S. antagonism to the International Criminal Court could soften under a new president, but that does not mean that either Barack Obama or John McCain is ready to sign on.
Pakistanis were leery of their government's anti-terror cooperation with the United States even before President Bush authorized U.S. military action inside Pakistan without their government's approval, according to a poll out Friday.
Faced with a mushrooming economic crisis, President Bush dealt Friday not only with a Congress fractured over how to respond but world leaders worriedly watching the U.S. meltdown spread into their economies.
The House passed legislation on Tuesday to reward belatedly more than 18,000 Filipinos for their service with U.S. forces in the Philippines during World War II.
The U.S. is doing little to protect against the potential dangers of obsolete televisions, computers and other devices sent abroad for reuse or disposal, congressional investigators reported Wednesday.
Relief workers distributing thousands of tons of U.S.-supplied food in North Korea have unprecedented freedom of access in the insular country to ensure the food goes to the people who need it, says the project's chief U.S. negotiator.
Congress sent President Bush a bill on Friday that once signed into law will allow Nelson Mandela to visit the United States without the secretary of state having to certify that he is not a terrorist.
A half-million Iraqis fled their embattled country in 2007, the third consecutive year more Iraqis were displaced than any other nationality, a survey of the world's refugees reported Thursday.
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