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New US Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice , currently on an eight-day get-acquainted junket through Europe and the Middle East, said Saturday in Turkey that Russia needed to improve its track record on democracy. She told reporters: It...

In Friday's international brief, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan formally reported to the Security Council Friday morning on the finding of the special UN commission on the situation in the Darfur region of Sudan. While the commission did...

Former chess champion Garry Kasparov, who now works as a human rights activist, has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of creating a puppet judiciary to persecute opposition leaders. Kasparov compared Putin's recent appointment of an inexperienced jurist...

In Thursday's international brief, Israel has announced its approval of a plan to release as many as 900 detained Palestinians in coming weeks. The details of the exact number of prisoners to be released, and the conditions...

Russian independent newspaper Kommersant protested a court judgment against the publication by leaving its Monday editions blank, save for an upside down copy of the court's opinion and several other satirical items. The court issued an $11.4...

Leading Friday's international brief, a key member of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement , now the ruling party in Southern Sudan, has expressed concern about the makeup of the proposed UN peacekeeping force to be deployed in March....

US bankruptcy court Judge Letitia Clark ruled late Thursday that Russian oil company Yukos cannot seek information as to whether the Russian state Gazprom monopoly illegally took part in the sale of Yukos' main oil-producing...

Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko will be sworn in as the new Ukrainian president at noon on Sunday. The Ukrainian Parliament voted to approve a Sunday ceremony after the country's Supreme Court rejected...

In Tuesday's international brief, the Russian government has rejected a petition initiated Monday by KPRF , the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, requesting a Duma vote of no-confidence. The government denied...

Thousands of Russians, many of them pensioners, marched in several major cities Saturday continuing four days week of protests against the Putin government's repeal of a Soviet-era social benefits law and its replacement by a program of minimal monthly...