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The special court for organized crime in Serbia Monday began a trial for 35 members of the so-called "Bankruptcy Mafia" - including former Belgrade Commercial Court president Goran Kljajevic and other prominent businessmen, bankers,...

The Communist Party of China (CPC) promised Wednesday to confront gambling, corruption, embezzlement, and fraud within the government, following a speech Tuesday by Chinese President Hu Jintao where the president hailed...

A coordinated hunger strike has halted proceedings before Bosnia's national war crimes after multiple defendants boycotted the court Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, demanding to be tried under the criminal code in place at the time of their alleged crimes,...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday his government might have to review relations with countries that criticized Saddam Hussein's execution , calling last Friday's hanging a domestic affair. In a speech in Baghdad celebrating the anniversary of...

US ambassador-at-large for war crimes Clint Williamson told a Sarajevo newspaper in an interview published Tuesday that the United States would consider it "absolutely unacceptable" for fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and...

British troops supported by Iraqi forces raided a Basra prison unit early Monday morning, freeing 127 prisoners detained in squalid conditions by a rogue Basra police squad suspected of torturing its prisoners. Following the raid,...

Spain's High Court ruled Wednesday that it does not have jurisdiction to try former Argentinean naval officer Ricardo Miguel Cavallo for crimes committed during Argentina's "dirty war" . Cavallo has been in Spanish custody since 2003...

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has urged countries to sign and ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families in order "to provide all migrants with the rights...

Luis Moreno-Ocampo , chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court , told the UN Security Council Thursday that his investigation into crimes committed in Darfur is almost complete, noting that he is...

US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton on Thursday called for international criminal charges to be brought against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for inciting genocide against Christians and Jews. While speaking at...