Iraqi law makers Monday reached an agreement to temporarily divide control of Kirkuk among the city's ethnic groups, as part of a compromise bill providing for provincial elections in the city. Control of Kirkuk has been major...
JURIST] Serbian President Boris Tadic said on Sunday that the country will fully cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to find and arrest Ratko Mladic and...
US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher Sunday called on the government of Sri Lanka to provide better human rights protections ...
The Alabama Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Wednesday to indefinitely stay the execution of Thomas Arthur , who had been sentenced to death by lethal injection for a 1982 contract killing. Arthur would have...
Bosnian Serb leader and former fugitive Radovan Karadzic Friday refused to enter a plea and denied the assistance of counsel in his first appearance before the International Criminal Tribunal...
A Thai court on Thursday convicted Pojamarn Shinawatra , the wife of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra , of tax evasion for transferring $16.3 million worth of stock to her step-brother and...
Australian Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Chris Evans has announced that the country will no longer impose mandatory detention on all those who enter the country seeking asylum. Evans said Tuesday that the...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Tuesday ruled that a lower court had erroneously dismissed a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit seeking to prevent Whole Foods Market from...
The Massachusetts House of Representatives Tuesday voted 119-36 for a bill that would repeal a 1913 law barring people from marrying in Massachusetts if their own state would not recognize such a union....
The Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina Tuesday delivered its first sentences of war crimes suspects from Yugoslavia's violent ethnic conflicts of the 1990s, convicting seven of genocide ...