Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina must arrest former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic , both wanted on war crimes charges, in order to be further...
Saddam Hussein on Thursday rejected forensic evidence of mass graves presented by US experts in his genocide trial for the "Anfal" campaigns against ethnic Kurds in northern Iraq between 1987 and...
The European Union may face a legal challenge from the US over plans to extend the EU's greenhouse gas emission allowance trading program to cover all international flights to and from Europe. The European Union's Greenhouse Gas...
The UK High Court ruled Thursday that two British citizens charged with terrorism offenses can be extradited to the US to face terrorism charges. Haroon Rashid Aswat , wanted in the US on suspicion of...
Chinese authorities have executed the founder of a Chinese Christian church and two of his close associates for allegedly ordering the murders of several members of a rival religious sect, a lawyer for Xu Shuangfu ...
South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Thursday approved the country's Civil Unions Bill , making South Africa the first African nation to recognize same-sex unions . Mlambo-Ngcuka signed the measure into...
A Mexican appeals court ruled Wednesday that a genocide trial against former Mexican President Luis Echeverria may proceed as long as prosecutors file formal charges against him before Friday, when the 30-year statute of...
The population of individuals in US prisons rose by 2.7 percent in 2005, according to an annual report released Wednesday by the US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics . The report indicates that over...
Mayfield v. United States, US District Court for the District of Oregon, November 29, 2006 [agreement in which the US government agreed to pay $2 million to Brandon Mayfield, an Oregon attorney arrested and detained for two weeks in May...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) decided Wednesday to move Serb nationalist war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj to a hospital unit adjoining its detention center at Scheveningen...