Algeria Wednesday asked the government of France to apologize for crimes committed during Frances colonization of Algeria, including Frances part in the massacres of 45,000 Algerians who demanded independence at the end of...
US District Judge Ivan Lemelle Tuesday urged federal and state officials to work together and quickly set a date for the postponed New Orleans mayoral primary elections at a hearing of...
On a brief visit to Iraq Tuesday US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter met with the chief judge overseeing the Saddam Hussein trial , telling reporters gathered in the trial chamber before the meeting...
The US State Department said Tuesday that Iraqi prisons are only nominally under control of the elected government in Baghdad, acknowledging that they are in practice run by the Shiite-led Interior Ministry , which has not yet...
German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, the outgoing head of a UN committee investigating the February 14 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , said Saturday that he is convinced Syrian authorities are responsible for Hariri's death....
An anti-bribery panel for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) urged governments on Friday to dig deeper into evidence of kickbacks and corruption reported by an independent UN commission investigating the UN's now-defunct Iraq oil-for-food...
Britain ran a secret prison at Bad Nenndorf in northwest Germany that tortured and starved to death inmates for two years after the end of World War II, according to a Saturday report from the Guardian. Inmates included Nazi...
Iraqi authorities began to ease tight election security measures Saturday by lifting the ban on traffic and opening all borders except for the border with Syria, which will reopen in a few days. Thursday's election ...
The UN Security Council late Thursday unanimously approved a six-month extension of the probe into the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri just before the mandate of the investigatory commission currently...
The European Parliament agreed Thursday to open an investigation into allegations that the CIA illegally operated secret jails in Romania and Poland and covertly flew detainees through Italy, Germany and Poland. Lawmakers approved the...