The permanent judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday held an Extraordinary Plenary Session to elect the successor to Theodor Meron, whose term as president of the Tribunal expires...

A spokesman for Austria's Interior Ministry said Thursday that British historian David Irving has been arrested on a warrant accusing him of denying the Holocaust. Irving has argued in his books that the scale of...

An Article 32 hearing has commenced for US Army Second Lt. Erick J. Anderson, accused of murder for his role in the death of an Iraqi teenager who was suffering from severe wounds in the...

Paul Bisengimana, former mayor of the Rwandan town Gikoro, pleaded guilty Thursday before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on charges related to the country's 1994 genocide . Bisengimana was initially charged with genocide,...

Lawyers from the US Department of Justice recommended that the department reject Georgia's new voter-identification law , but were overruled by higher-ranking DOJ officials, according to documents obtained by the Washington Post. Four of five staff...

Two US soldiers will face court-martial proceedings for striking two detainees in their custody at Forward Operating Base Ripley in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, the US military said Thursday. Army Sgt. Kevin D. Myricks and Army Spc. James...

The European Parliament approved a legislative package Thursday which will allow safety-testing for thousands of chemicals used in everyday products. The Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals Act (REACH) calls for...

Lawyers in Bangladesh Thursday entered their second day of a boycott on the court system to protest the suicide bombings which killed two judges earlier this week, as police increased efforts to find individuals suspected to have...

Leading Thursday's international brief, Senior government ministers from South Africa and Zimbabwe met Thursday to sign an official agreement strengthening ties between the nations' intelligence, defense, and police services. The agreement creates a joint commission...

A UN human rights official has called for an investigation into the killings of two defense lawyers representing co-defendants of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein . The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions [official...