A senior Hamas leader said Sunday that the party plans to use Islamic sharia as a guide for lawmaking as Hamas members take their seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council , but that Hamas will convince...

A bail hearing for Lucia Pinochet Hiriart, daughter of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is set for Monday in Santiago Monday following Hiriat's return to Chile Saturday after she withdrew her request for...

AP is reporting that the chief lawyer for Saddam Hussein has said that Hussein and his defense team will boycott trial proceedings when they resume Wednesday. The trial resumed briefly Sunday under new...

Leading Monday's international brief, the Sudanese government has criticized a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights report released last Friday which sharply condemned the human rights condition in Darfur . Jamal Mohamed Ibrahim,...

The trial of Uzbek opposition leader and businessman Sanjar Umarov opened and promptly adjourned Monday in Tashkent after defense lawyers requested more time to prepare their case. Umarov, a leader of the opposition Sunshine Uzbekistan Coalition [party...

British politicians, writers and comedians are urging members of the UK House of Commons to accept freedom of speech revisions in the controversial Racial and Religious Hatred Bill , which returns to the Commons for...

The Egyptian government has said that it will not deport hundreds of Sudanese detainees who lack status as refugees or asylum seekers. The detainees were arrested after a three-month sit-in protest in front of UN offices in Cairo resulted...

Cambodian President Hun Sen has said that a court has refused to allow him to drop criminal defamation charges against a group of human rights activists, as he had promised last week. In a speech...

Jury selection is set to begin Monday in the criminal trial of former Enron founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling on conspiracy and fraud charges . Defense lawyers for...

Finnish leaders hinted over the weekend that they would like to put the European Constitution back on the table for discussion at the October summit of European Union leaders scheduled during Finland's six-month...