"..............the U.S. will recognize the outcome of the Honduran elections regardless of whether Manuel Zelaya is reinstated............"

"We will express our protest during the Games not in reference to Tibet but in a general way concerning abiding to human rights and freedom of press," said a statement on the network's website. "That is because the Olympic Charter ....

Presenting his machine to reporters on Friday, March 28, former Hamburg Justice Minister Roger Kusch said that it would give terminally ill people in Germany a chance to end their lives

The massive cash injection marks the first time the German government has stepped in directly to prop up a casualty of the subprime loan crisis in the US which has buffeted banks in Europe since last summer.

Not only the US, but also France, Pakistan and Great Britain were criticized by HRW for breaching human rights in the name of the "war on terror." The American prison in Cuba came under fire, in particular.

That question is plaguing Germany and has now turned into a national debate about how Germany cares for its children and how large a role the government can and should play in protecting them.

As tens of thousands of peaceful anti-globalization demonstrators marched in protest against the upcoming G8 summit in the German town of Rostock Saturday, some clashed violently with police, injuring at least 100.

German police have collected body scent samples of left-wing activists in the lead up to the G8 summit. Some politicians accuse the government of resorting to the dubious methods of the East German secret police.

"Witnesses, victims and observers we met repeatedly confirmed joint action between Government forces and armed militia in assaulting civilian targets in Darfur," the report said.

Resistance to a planned Russian gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea is growing in Europe. Sweden is especially uneasy about the project. Besides environmental concerns, some Swedish politicians fear it may be used for spying. Gotland is a small island in