Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday rejected calls for his government to provide full humanitarian access to Tamil displacement camps in the country, saying the camps still needed to be screened for rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE)...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday that he will seek to amend a 2008 amnesty law  because its application has allowed too many accused of corruption and terrorism to be released. Speaking...

Former South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun apparently committed suicide Saturday by leaping off a 30-foot cliff. Roh and members of Roh's family were under investigation by the Republic of Korea's Supreme Prosecutor's...

The first person convicted under Canada's post-9/11 terrorism law was sentenced Friday to 36 months in prison, and released by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in consideration of the time he has already served...

USA, et al. v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al., US Supreme Court, May 22, 2009 [affirming a district court ruling that tobacco manufacturers conducted a scheme to deceive American consumers as to the health effects of their products through...

Her Majesty the Queen v. Desire Munyaneza, Superior Court of Quebec, May 22, 2009 . Read the full...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Friday affirmed a district court ruling that tobacco manufacturers conducted a scheme to deceive American consumers as to the health effects of...

Rwandan Hutu Desire Munyaneza was convicted by the Superior Court of Quebec Friday on seven counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes under Canada's new Crimes Against Humanity and War...

The South Korean Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling allowing a brain-damaged patient the right to die . The patient, a 76-year old woman on life-support at a Yonsei University...

Former US soldier Steven Green was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenage girl and the murder of her family in Mahmudiya. A federal jury...