Hissene Habre , the former president of Chad wanted by a Belgian court for crimes against humanity allegedly committed during his rule, has been arrested and is being held in Senegal, lawyers said Tuesday. Habre has...

The military commission trial of Australian David Hicks , who has been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for more than 3 1/2 years, was postponed on Monday by a US district judge until the US Supreme...

Omri Sharon , the son of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and member of the Israeli Knesset, pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegal fundraising activities related to his father's reelection campaign . In exchange for his...

Spanish Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso announced Tuesday that the country would investigate allegations that US CIA planes carrying terrorism suspects made secret landings on Spanish soil before continuing to Libya, Algeria, Romania, Macedonia and Sweden....

Two of eight former Iraqi detainees who are suing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told ABC News Monday they were tortured while in US custody. The torture included beatings, electrocution with tazers, food and water deprivation, being...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the US Department of State made statements Monday condemning the non-appealable conviction of fifteen Uzbek men who were sentenced to 14-20 years in prison for their...

Former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic requested a recess in his war crimes trial Tuesday, to allow him time to recover from the strain of defending himself. Milosevic submitted a report from his doctors to...

The South Jakarta District Court Tuesday dropped a case brought by the Indonesian Ministry of Environment against the Newmont Mining Corporation , the Indonesian subsidiary of a Denver-based company, saying the case should...

Eight advocacy groups Monday filed a complaint in US district court on behalf of the 6.4 million people who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid to make sure that no elderly or disabled Americans lose access to prescription...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, three judges from the Kenyan Constitutional Court ruled that a legal challenge to the legitimacy of the upcoming Kenyan national referendum on the proposed draft constitution was invalid and that neither the legislative...