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TIRANA, Albania — Albania's opposition Socialists charged Saturday that the ruling Democrats were improperly trying to influence the country's lengthy vote count by declaring victory before all ballots from last week's national election were tallied. Albania joined NATO in April and has been under intense international pressure to ensure the June 28 vote was free of the fraud that marred the first six elections held after the Balkan country's communist regime fell in 1990. But the Socialists threatened to hold street protests after election authorities declared late Friday that Prime Minister Sali Berisha's Democrats had won enough seats to form a government. The country's electoral commission is re-counting ballots from some polling stations following complaints about irregularities, and the Socialists insist it cannot... [read full story]
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Debates over the right to maintain arms to deter the Israeli threat are creating obstacles to the drafting of a national policy statement in Beirut. Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri handed...
By Norma Greenaway, Canwest News ServiceNovember 25, 2009 6:02 PM The Conservatives have steadily cut the number of prisoner transfers being approved since they took office in 2006. Under Stockwell Day, the former public safety...
By LIBARDO CARDONA Associated Press Writer BOGOTA (AP) - The sentence of ex-Gen. Jaime Humberto Uscategui is the most severe imposed on a senior Colombian officer in a case of collusion with right-wing death squads. During the...
Wednesday 25th November 2009 Chris Cheesman Photography of secret documents carried by officials entering Downing Street should not be allowed to happen in future, the anti-terrorism watchdog has told the Prime Minister. The...
