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Luis Moreno Ocampo , chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court , told the UN Security Council Wednesday that his investigation into crimes against humanity in Darfur has documented thousands of killings of civilians, large...

The father of a fallen Marine has filed the first lawsuit brought by the family of a servicemember against the renegade Westboro Baptist Church of...

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said Monday that there may be more arrests in the terror investigation that led Friday to the detention and charging of 12 men and five youths suspected of being...

Canadian security authorities said Saturday that a major terrorist attack on Canadian targets had been thwarted by the arrests of twelve men and five youths in Ontario Friday. A spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...

JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that the killings of Iraqi...

President Bush on Memorial Day signed into law the Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act , legislation barring protests near military funerals originally passed in the US House of Representatives ...

Congress has approved and sent to President Bush for his signature a measure designed to prevent demonstrators from getting close to military funerals at national cemeteries. The US Senate approved the final version of the Respect for America's Fallen...

The appointment of Jamal Abu Samhadana , fugitive leader of the militant Popular Resistance Committees , as director general of the Palestinian Authority's Interior Ministry and head of a new Palestinian security force raised concerns Friday that...

Khaled Abu Arafa, the minister of Jerusalem affairs in the new Hamas-led Palestinian government , was detained Thursday by Israeli police as he attempted to meet his predecessor, Ziad Abu Zayyad, for administrative purposes. Reports indicate Abu Arafa...

Over 50,000 mourners gathered in front of the parliament building in Belgrade Saturday to mourn the death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic , who last week was found dead in his prison cell at...