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An international rights group pressed Pakistan's new government on Wednesday to quickly investigate the disappearance of hundreds of people allegedly at the hands of its security agencies.

The head of Maryland's state police says a federal investigation into his agency's surveillance of anti-war and death penalty opposition groups is not needed.

White House hopeful Ralph Nader is talking up the shortcomings of the candidates that are sure to beat him in November.

BOISE, Idaho - Officials with the American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho will accept applications until August 22 for a new executive director.

As the Zimbabwean government and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change prepare to enter power-sharing talks, Amnesty International called on both parties to ensure there are no pardons for those who ...

An international human rights group believes the 17-year-old victim of a police Taser in Winnipeg is the youngest Canadian to die after being zapped by a stun gun.

Rising temperatures and reduced water supply could cost Kansas more than $1 billion in agriculture losses by 2017.

Presidential candidate Barack Obama urged Europe to stand by the United States in stabilizing Afghanistan in a speech to over 200,000 in Berlin that stressed the need for unity in the face of new threats.

Ralph Nader wants the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to take a new look at its decision ordering his presidential campaign to pay $81,102.19 in costs related to his being tossed from the 2004 presidential ballot.

A FORMER member of the Italian terrorist group the Red Brigades has stopped eating and is being treated in a French prison hospital after the president, Nicolas Sarkozy, ordered her extradition to Italy last ...

Global warming and kittens. While it may seem hard to see the connection between the two -- a climate phenomenon that melts glaciers and acidifies oceans, and cuddly, 4-ounce balls of fur -- experts say there ...

A bipartisan group of senators is hoping to fight high crime levels on American Indian reservations with legislation that would boost tribal law enforcement and improve coordination between federal and local ...

A new study predicts that climate change will create devastating drought in this state and throughout the Southwest and continue to drop the levels of already low Lake Mead and Lake Powell, threatening the ...

Everyone seems to be telling us that if you want to understand 2008, you have to look back 40 years to 1968.

Toye Olori Lagos Hopes of a reprieve for hundreds of death row inmates in Nigeria were dashed when MPs threw out a bill which would have commuted all death sentences to life imprisonment and down-graded robbery ...

An international rights group pressed Pakistan's new government on Wednesday to quickly investigate the disappearance of hundreds of people allegedly at the hands of its security agencies.

Woeser, a Tibetan writer and activist is seen during an interview in Beijing, China, Friday, June 27, 2008.

The government can't seem to catch a break with English-to-Korean translations. First we got the supposed "translation errors" in PD Notebook's infamous mad cow show last April.* Now it appears that some of the ...

Everyone, it seems, loves superheroes. That applies even to those who tend to put their political opinions above everything else.

Fifteen minutes after KeKe the African elephant died in May, the Dallas Zoo received its first fax imploring that Jenny, her lone companion, be moved to an elephant sanctuary.