EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said Thursday that the European Union will suspend membership negotiations with Serbia if it did not fully cooperate in seeking the arrest of war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic [ICTY case backgrounder; BBC...

California faces a virtual moratorium on executions in the wake of a court ruling that medical professionals must monitor executions by lethal injection to be sure that the inmate feels no pain. The execution of condemned killer Michael Morales...

The US military should take a greater, perhaps sometimes even temporarily a leading role in disaster recovery, and policy steps should to be taken to facilitate this, according to a 228-page White House report [table of contents and full...

Fusako Shigenobu , founder of the terrorist group known as the Japanese Red Army (JRA) , was convicted in a Tokyo court Thursday and sentenced to twenty years in prison for kidnapping and attempted murder...

US District Judge Melinda Harmon has given preliminary approval to a $6.7 billion settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought by Enron shareholders, an attorney involved in the case said Wednesday. Shareholders brought...

The South Dakota Senate on Wednesday approved by a 23-12 vote a bill that would ban all abortions, excluding only those necessary to save a woman's life. A similar bill has already passed...

Leading Thursday's international brief, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has been named among possible target for UN Security Council sanctions being considered against high-ranking officials in the Sudanese government that are thought to be complicit in...

Belarus newspaper Zgoda has been criminally charged for reprinting cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad that have sparked violent protests across the Muslim world. The Belarus State Security Committee , still known as...

The Spanish National Court (Audiencia Nacional) has taken jurisdiction over a case investigating Guatemalan officers accused of genocide and torture during the civil unrest from 1978 to 1986. The allegations were made 1999 by Guatemalan Nobel...

Perfect 10 v. Google, United States District Court, Central District of California, February 22, 2006 [finding that search engine Google violated Perfect 10's copyrights by displaying small "thumbnail" versions of digital images that were stolen from Perfect 10's website and...