A German court has charged three Iraqi German residents with conspiring to kill former Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and membership in a terrorist organization, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. German authorities arrested all...
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The UN's World Summit on the Information Society opened Wednesday in Tunisia as participants reached an 11th-hour agreement on a draft declaration which will leave the US-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...
Iraqi human rights officials are investigating reports that US troops in Iraq used white phosphorus as an incendiary weapon during a 2004 military assault on the insurgent-controlled city of Fallujah. According to Acting Human Rights...
Judge Patrick Robinson, who is presiding over the trial of Slobodan Milosevic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , adjourned the proceedings Wednesday after Milosevic said he was too ill to call his...
Peru's Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a prosecutor's request to extradite former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori from Chile so that he can face corruption and human rights charges in Peru. Supreme Court Justice Jose Luis Lecaros denied...
UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke ordered Wednesday that British citizen Babar Ahmad be extradited to the United States where he will face charges of terrorism, conspiring to kill Americans and running a website...
Former Bosnian Army commander Sefer Halilovic was acquitted Wednesday by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on war crimes charges . The ICTY ruled that court prosecutors did not prove that Halilovic,...
Massachusetts legislators Tuesday rejected a bill 100-53 which proposed the reinstatement of the death penalty. Massachusetts has not used capital punishment since 1947. The bill was proposed in April by Republican Governor Mitt Romney [official...
Leading Wednesday's international brief, Former Indonesian acting secretary-general of the General Elections Commission (KPU) Sussongko Sahardjo has been found guilty on charges of corruption and bribery and is facing sentencing that could...
The US Department of Justice said Tuesday that it is backing an attempt by congressional Republicans to split up the largest federal appeals court in the US, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official...
