A Kuwaiti court Tuesday sentenced six Islamist militants to death for their involvement in a January 2005 clash with police that left several people dead. All the men were members of the Peninsula Lions Brigades, a fundamentalist group linked...
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A Chinese court Tuesday sentenced former minister of land and natural resources Tian Fengshan to life in prison after finding him guilty of accepting over $500,000 in bribes during his time in office. The Beijing Number Two Intermediate...
The British government Tuesday filed an anticipated appeal challenging a recent High Court decision that Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks is entitled to British citizenship. Hick's lawyers want citizenship for...
Polish government spokesperson Konrad Ciesiolkiewicz announced Tuesday that an official probe into the alleged existence of secret CIA prisons in the country has ended. Zbigniew Wassermann , the Polish minister in charge of the country's intelligence services, delivered...
Russian prosecutors leading the probe into the September 2004 Beslan school siege issued a report Monday concluding that Chechen terrorists, not Russian authorities, were to blame for the deaths of 330 people, mostly children. Another...
Khalil Dulaimi, chief Iraqi defense counsel for Saddam Hussein, told the Jordanian newspaper Al Arab Al Yawm in a report published Monday that Saddam Hussein's half brother, Barzan Ibrahim had been offered...
In a move to bolster its democratic credentials, the Council of the European Union , the EU's senior decision-making body, will begin to debate and vote more often in public in the new year. Television cameras will be...
The Supreme Court of Chile on Monday denied the appeal of former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet on human rights charges, ruling 3-2 in support of a lower appeals court decision...
Former Bosnian Serb general and indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic is reported to be discussing his surrender with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , according...
Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Monday he will seek a royal pardon from King Norodom Sihanouk rather than appeal the 18-month sentence he was given last Thursday following an in absentia conviction for two...
