French prosecutors on Friday filed preliminary terrorism charges against the suspected leader of the Basque separatist group ETA , along with two other people who are believed to be senior members of the group. A...
The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Thursday that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will eventually face justice in The Hague. Speaking in London before the British House of...
Lawyers for seven Chinese Muslim Uighurs detained at Guantanamo Bay filed a motion Thursday to remand proceedings from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to the US District Court...
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown testified to the Iraq Inquiry on Friday that he remains convinced that the decision to participate in the 2003 Iraq invasion was the appropriate course of action. Brown discussed...
The US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs voted 23-22 Tuesday to adopt a resolution that recognizes the Ottoman Empire's treatment of Armenians between 1915 and 1923 as genocide ....
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday heard an unlawful prosecution case brought by bankrupt oil company Yukos against the Russian government for allegedly illegally prosecuting the company for tax...
Imam Ahmad Afzali pleaded guilty Thursday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York to charges of lying to FBI agents in connection with a plot to detonate explosives in the New York...
A German court in Dusseldorf on Thursday convicted four Islamists of conspiracy to murder and belonging to a foreign terrorist group for plotting to destroy US facilities within Germany. The four men, members of the radical Islamic Jihad Union...
The Supreme Court of Oklahoma ruled Tuesday that a state law imposing broad restrictions on abortion violates the state constitution. The law required women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound within...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday criticized the state of human rights in Sri Lanka, Iran, and several other countries, while presenting her annual report to the 13th Session [official...