A Spanish court issued an international arrest warrant on Monday for the extradition of Jose Sosa Orantes, a former Guatemalan soldier being held in Canada for his involvement in a 1982 massacre during Guatemala's 36-year civil war ....
An Argentine federal court on Thursday sentenced former general Eduardo Cabanillas to life in prison for his involvement in the nation's 1976-83 "Dirty War" . Cabanillas, who ran a secret Buenos Aires facility known as...
A federal judge sentenced former Enron Broadband Services executive Rex Shelby to two years probation Monday on charges of insider trading. The sentencing marks the end of an eight-year long criminal prosecution of...
The Spanish Supreme Court on Wednesday denied legal status to new political party, Sortu, in response to the government's concerns that its links to the Basque separatist group ETA ...
A federal judge on Monday declined to formally rule on the request by former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich to cancel his retrial , claiming that the motion was neither serious, nor did it raise a...
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo warned Libyan government officials on Friday that war crimes prosecution could result for any indiscriminate attacks against civilians in Benghazi. Last week, the UN was called upon to...
Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Monday warned the six Kenyans suspected of inciting the 2007-2008 post-election violence that arrests would ensue if they did not comply...
The appeals chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) ruled Thursday that the trial can accept the final brief of former Liberian president Charles Taylor and that his...
An Italian court on Monday resumed the trial of Prime Minster Silvio Berlusconi on tax fraud charges , just weeks after the Constitutional Court modified a law...
The Maryland Senate approved legislation Thursday to legalize same-sex marriage . The bill, entitled Civil Marriage Protection Act, would alter existing legislation that validates only heterosexual marriage. Approval of the Act will give...