A Croatian court sentenced former prime minister Ivo Sanader to 10 years in prison on Tuesday for corruption and war profiteering. Judge Ivan Turudic found Sanader guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and also ordered...
Russia's new NGO law went into effect on Tuesday, and activists have vowed to challenge it. The law requires Russian NGOs financed from abroad and involved in political activity to be registered as foreign agents [RAPSI...
UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson on Monday stressed the need to address the causes of maritime piracy with a "multi-dimensional approach" . Addressing the UN Security Council, Eliasson noted three areas of concern that warrant...
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday that US forces were capturing and holding Afghans in violation of a detainee transfer pact and that US forces should turn over that responsibility to Karzai's forces. Karzai's statement urged...
A court in Kazakhstan on Monday upheld the conviction of an outspoken opposition leader accused of inciting dissent in an attempt to overthrow the country's government. Vladimir Kozlov , head of the unofficial...
The government of Myanmar on Monday began releasing a number of political prisoners at the same time US President Barack Obama arrived for a historic visit to the former dictatorship. Specifically, 66 prisoners were...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ended a long-running territorial and maritime dispute between Colombia and Nicaragua by ruling Monday that Colombia has sovereignty over a group of small islands in the western...
A spokesperson for the Australian Minister for Justice said Saturday that he has approved the extradition of Serbian war crimes suspect, Dragan Vasiljkovic , to Croatia. Vasiljkovic is accused of torturing and killing captured members...
The Ivory Coast's military committed widespread human rights abuses in August and September, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Monday. The report details the alleged abuses including arbitrary arrests, illegal detentions, extortion...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against online auction company eBay alleging violations of...