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Turkey must speed up political and social reforms to meet the criteria for accession into the European Union , European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said in a speech before the Turkish parliament...

EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn warned Turkey on Saturday that there would be serious ramifications for its bid to join the European Union if the Constitutional Court of Turkey decides...

Serbian demonstrators set fire to the US Embassy in Belgrade Thursday after a massive street demonstration that drew an estimated 150,000 people to protest Kosovo's weekend unilateral declaration of independence . The United States formally...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Monday refused to comment on the legality of Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia, instead calling on all parties to "exercise maximum restraint" in response to the declaration....

The United States and several key European Union powers formally recognized Kosovo as a sovereign state Monday, one day after the Assembly of Kosovo unilaterally declared Kosovo's independence from Serbia. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...

JURIST Guest Columnist Timothy Waters of Indiana University School of Law Bloomington says that Kosovo's declaration of independence represents a problematic precedent in international law that may ironically bring us back to self-determination as the core historical and moral justification...

The Assembly of Kosovo on Sunday declared the disputed territory independent from Serbia, formally marking the erstwhile Serbian province's bid to become "an independent, democratic and sovereign state." Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim...

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) established and operated secret detention centers in Romania and Poland between 2002 and 2005, according to a report [PDF text; Appendix 1, JPG; Appendix 2, JPG; Appendix 3, PDF; press release;...

At least 39 "ghost detainees" have been held by the US CIA in secret detention facilities, according to a report jointly published Thursday by six leading human rights groups, including Amnesty...

The former head of the tarnished UN Oil-for-Food Program was indicted by US federal prosecutors in New York Tuesday on charges of bribery and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Benon Sevan...