A Milan prosecutor charged former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with false accounting on Monday, alleging that his broadcasting company, Mediaset, incorrectly reported its costs in purchasing television rights to...

Afghanistan has ended a three-year moratorium on the death penalty by executing 15 prisoners Sunday by firing squad at Pul-e-Charkhi , the country's largest prison, Afghanistan's chief of prisons said Monday. The executions are the second confirmed reports...

Russian prosecutors know the identity of the person who shot Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya , but have yet to arrest or bring charges against the suspect, lead investigator Petros Garibyan said in an interview ...

The International Court of Justice issued an opinion Monday resolving a maritime boundary dispute between Nicaragua and Honduras and granting possession of four small Caribbean islands to Honduras. Nicaragua filed...

The Bangladeshi government intends to establish a "truth commission" to bolster the economy following a judicial crackdown on business corruption, according to a Bangladesh Supreme Court lawyer drafting a proposal to establish the commission. The truth commission would offer...

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will not investigate allegations made last year that several large telephone companies handed over customer phone records to the government as part of the domestic surveillance program conducted...

A US House of Representatives resolution labeling the World War I-era killings of over one million Armenians by Turkish soldiers as genocide would strain diplomatic ties between the US and Turkey, Turkish head...

Case Concerning Territorial and Maritime Dispute Between Nicaragua and Hondras in the Caribbean Sea (Nicaragua v. Honduras), International Court of Justice, October 8, 2007 [resolving a maritime boundary dispute between Nicaragua and Hondras, granting possession of four small Caribbean islands...

The military government of Myanmar said Monday that opposition leader and democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi would likely not be released from house arrest until a new constitution for the country is...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged China to institute a moratorium on capital punishment in preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympics . HRW commended China for the reported decrease in the number of executions [JURIST...