A Serbian who may prove to be a key witness in the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested in Madrid for the murder of a human rights leader in Kosovo, Spanish...

Public hearings on the merits of a case alleging state-sponsored genocide by Serbia and Montenegro opened Monday at the Hague-based International Court of Justice . Proceedings technically began in March 1993, when Bosnia filed a claim [application text;...

US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) has begun circulating a draft version of a bill that would require the federal government to obtain permission before conducting domestic surveillance . The bill, which Specter...

An Australian man plans to appeal his conviction for receiving money and a plane ticket from an Osama bin Laden associate, his lawyer said Monday. Joseph Terrence Thomas was found guilty by a jury...

Saddam Hussein has ended a hunger strike to protest his trial after fasting for 11 days, according to his chief lawyer Monday. Khalil Dulaimi met with his client for several hours ...

China will increase the number of public trials for death penalty appeals during the second half of 2006, a legal scholar from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said Monday. Liu Renwen...

Police in the Philippines Monday charged 16 people with rebellion for allegedly planning to oust Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo , according to the head of the police legal department. The coup plot involved...

Leading Monday's international brief, despite the status of Hamas as a listed terrorist entity, the European Union has announced plans at a foreign ministers' meeting Monday to attempt to work around a legal ban that prohibits European...

Khalil Dulaimi , chief defense lawyer for ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein , told Reuters Sunday he met with his client for seven hours and discussed a possible end to the defense boycott of the...

California Youth and Adult Corrections Secretary Roderick Hickman said over the weekend that he is resigning his post after a two year attempt to reform California's prison system. Appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger , Hickman was...