President Bush is facing stiff opposition against his new plans for Iraq which include an increase of more than 20,000 troops. Some lawmakers are concerned that the President didn’t just esca...

If Bush’s speech last night went against the collective political feeling inside the US, it was certainly not in line with the political situation in Iraq, where fighting has continued and gr...

The House of Representatives passed legislation today that could lift the federal ban on Embryonic Stem Cell Research, but the bill failed to pass with the two-thirds majority needed to override a ...

Human Rights Watch launched its annual World Report today, to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the onset of first detainees at the US Military Prison at Guantanamo Bay. The report calls for t...

The Human Rights Watch Annual Report also criticizes Mexico’s use of military soldiers to perform police duties. Mexico\'s Interior Secretariat unexpectedly suspended this week\'s round of ne...

In Colombia, revelations of government officials\' links to outlaw right-wing paramilitary organizations have produced the biggest crisis yet in the government of President Alvaro Uribe, Washington...