The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has assigned counsel for Vojislav Seselj , ruling that Seselj may not conduct his own defense in his war crimes trial. According to the ICTY...
Faheem Khalid Lodhi, a 36-year-old Pakistan-born Australian immigrant, on Wednesday was sentenced to 20 years in prison with a minimum of 15 years served for his plan to wage a "holy war" by detonating homemade bombs around...
Xia Shuqin , a survivor of the 1937-1938 Nanjing Massacre , was awarded $200,000 by a Chinese court Wednesday in a lawsuit against two Japanese historians who claimed she fabricated her recollection of the atrocities....
A Russian court has affirmed the right of the city of Moscow to reject an application by organizers of a gay pride parade, ruling that there was a legitimate safety concern in banning the parade, though lawyers for the...
Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht , who was reprimanded by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct in May for his support of former US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers , defended...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has said that he will divert additional resources to New Orleans to address the city's high crime rates following the Hurricane Katrina disaster . The...
Testimony from Kurdish survivors of the 1987-1988 Anfal campaign in Iraq continued Wednesday during the trial of Saddam Hussein , where Hussein and six co-defendants face genocide and crimes against humanity charges . Following...
A plan by the US Forest Service to allow commercial logging inside Central California's Giant Sequoia National Monument violates environmental laws , US District Judge Charles R. Breyer held Tuesday. Breyer had previously issued...
Passions Video, Inc. v. Nixon, US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, August 21, 2006 . Read the full text of...
US officials have arrested eight people for allegedly attempting to buy weapons to use against the Sri Lankan military, and for attempting to bribe US State Department officials to remove their organization from the State Department's list of designated...