An appeals court for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Monday set aside the life sentence of Juvenal Kajelijeli , convicted in 2003 of genocide and incitement to commit genocide, and converted it to 45 years with...
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In a commencement address at Pace Law School Sunday, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan's Chef de Cabinet Mark Malloch Brown referred to the US as an "ungainly giant" that prefers to play by its...
Republican Dino Rossi is challenging the 2004 election victory of Democratic Washington Governor Christine Gregoire , the closest statewide election in history. Rossi, who won the first count by 261 votes and a machine recount by...
The US Supreme Court said Monday it will decide an unsettled issue of abortion law: the standard to apply when judging the constitutionality of abortion restrictions. That issue and the issue of whether a health exception should...
Staff Sgt. Shane Werst's military trial is set to start Monday in the shooting death of Iraqi detainee Naser Ismail. Werst was charged in November 2004 after a soldier in his squad reported that Werst shot Ismail,...
A military policeman has pled guilty to assault and two counts of making a false statement in the 2002 beating death of an Afghan prisoner . In a plea bargain Spc. Brian E. Cammack also agreed to...
Iran's hard-line Guardian Council Sunday rejected all reformist candidates in the upcoming presidential election, disqualifying more than 1,000 potential candidates. Just six conservative candidates were selected to run in the election, prompting a crisis meeting by reform...
United Nations Director of the Electoral Assistance Division Carina Perelli said Sunday that Lebanese politicians agree that electoral reform must be a top priority after the upcoming parliamentary elections, the first without a Syrian military presence in...
The United Nations has condemned the alleged abuse of Afghan detainees by US military forces and called on the military to allow an investigation by human rights officials inside Afghanistan. The Sunday statement comes in response...
US District Court Judge Martin Jenkins ruled Friday that there was not enough evidence to sustain many of the counts against former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko . In a complex trial that ended nearly one year...
