A senior member of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) presented its proposed constitutional amendment package to its principal coalition partner Sunday. The 62-point package, which anticipates restoring the judiciary deposed by President Pervez Musharraf last...
A Croatian district court judged convicted a retired Croatian general of war crimes Friday for failing to prevent his soldiers from torturing and killing Serbs and destroying their property during the Croatian War of Independence. Retired Gen. Mirko Norac...
Rwandan justice officials Friday criticized a decision by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) denying a motion to transfer an accused genocide leader to the Rwandan court system for trial. An...
Ten US state attorneys general have petitioned the Supreme Court of California to postpone implementation of its May 15 decision legalizing same-sex marriages until after state elections in November. California is...
Connecticut filed a lawsuit against pharmaceutical distribution giant McKesson Corp. in US District Court for the District of Massachusetts Thursday, accusing the company of violating federal anti-racketeering laws by inflating drug prices for state-funded health...
A Washington DC Superior Court found 34 members of anti-war activism group Witness Against Torture guilty Thursday on misdemeanor charges of illegal protesting. Police arrested 71 group members at a protest in front of the...
A Texas state appeals court Thursday overturned a jury verdict against pharmaceutical giant Merck concerning a death allegedly caused by painkiller Vioxx . The Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals reversed ...
The former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay alleges that the US Department of Defense (DOD) retaliated against him for giving testimony at the pre-trial hearing of detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan ...
The Balkan region, once plagued by a reputation for dangerous crime and political instability, is now one of the safest regions in Europe, according to a UN study released Thursday. The United Nations Office on...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued five decisions Thursday finding Russia responsible for the disappearance of a dozen people during Russian armed raids in Chechnya in 2002 and 2003. Families of the victims, all of...