Political Policy

Overview of the IAEA's 35-nation board meeting at Vienna's International Center, in Vienna, on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Hans Punz) Copyright 2009 AP News

The European Union urged Turkey Thursday to open its ports to Greek Cypriot vessels, ahead of a summit that may turn up pressure on Ankara over its refusal to comply with the terms of a trade pact with the bloc. "It is ...

A Tunisian court on Thursday sentenced a journalist and vocal critic of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to six months in prison for assaulting a woman. Taoufik Ben Brik, 49, had protested his innocence, saying he was the victim of a ...

Leaders from the Commonwealth, composed mainly of former British colonies, will mull in coming days whether to admit Rwanda as its newest member despite a wave of protest, officials said Thursday. Rwanda, a predominantly French-speaking former Belgian colony, voiced interest in 2008 ...

The outgoing head of the UN's atomic watchdog expressed "disappointment" Thursday over Iran and said efforts to verify the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear drive had reached a dead end. In his last meeting as director-general of the International Atomic Energy ...

Norway said Thursday Iran had confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize of Shirin Ebadi, a human rights advocate who won the award in 2003, and that it had summoned Iran's envoy to Oslo to protest the matter. "The medal and diploma have been ...

The Catholic Church in Ireland covered up widespread allegations of "evil" child sex abuse by priests for decades, according to a damning report released on Thursday. Four archbishops routinely protected abusers and failed to inform police of the allegations, according to a ...

Paul Kirk never figured to upstage the legend whose death opened up a Senate seat. Even so, the stylish Massachusetts lawyer and former Democratic Party chairman has taken on such a low profile as Edward M. Kennedy's successor that some are questioning ...

FILE - This Oct. 25, 2006 file photo shows then German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung, left, and Wolfgang Schneiderhan, German forces Bundeswehr chief of staff, during a news conference at the defense ministry in Berlin. Germany's defense minister says Thursday Nov. ...

German defense minister removes military chief over Afghan airstrike fallout The German military's top official was removed Thursday for failing to properly pass on information to political leaders about a September airstrike in Afghanistan that killed civilians. The new defense minister, Karl-Theodor ...