The Japanese Supreme Court has rejected the appeals of Chinese nationals seeking compensation for being forced to work in Japan as slave laborers during World War II, ruling that Japan's 20-year statute of limitations...
Thousands of Pakistanis cheered in support of suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as he arrived in Faisalabad Sunday, completing a two-day procession from Islamabad. Speaking to the crowd, Chaudhry once again called for a more independent judiciary....
Montenegro authorities Sunday arrested Vlastimir Djordjevic , a former Serbian police general, for the murder and persecution of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in 1999. According to Djordjevic's indictment, he and six other high-ranking...
Vietnamese state media Saturday reported the release of 36-year-old lawyer and political dissident Le Quoc Quan , the second pro-democracy dissident released by the Vietnamese government ahead of President Nguyen Minh Tribet's June visit to the United States....
US District Judge William M. Acker Jr. of the Northern District of Alabama Friday asked federal prosecutors to charge prominent Mississippi plaintiff's attorney Richard Scruggs with criminal contempt, saying that Scruggs "willfully violated" a preliminary injunction ordering Scruggs to...
The US District Court for the District of Colombia Friday ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to release approximately 100,000 pages of documents detailing the FBI's use of national security letters (NSL) [CRS backgrounder,...
Mike Elston, chief of staff to US Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty , announced his resignation Friday, making him the fifth Department of Justice (DOJ) official linked to the controversial firing of at least eight...
The Russian delegation to the Extraordinary Conference of the States Parties to the CFE Treaty in Vienna expressed displeasure at the close of talks Friday and repeated calls for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ...
Following a Friday meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski told the Polish daily newspaper Dziennik he was optimistic that a compromise on a controversial voting system...
Seven men who conspired with British al Qaeda leader Dhiren Barot to launch attacks in Britain and the US were sentenced to a combined 136 years in prison [London Metropolitan Police press...