Completion strategy progress report, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, released June 8, 2005 . Read the full...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, the leading opposition party in Zimbabwe , the Movement for Democratic Change has announced its intention to boycott the opening of the Zimbabwean Parliament Thursday morning by Zimbabwe President Robert...

South African businessman Schabir Shaik was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in jail after being found guilty of two counts of corruption and one count of fraud, ending a high-profile case that many in South...

An 80-year-old man reputed to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan will stand trial starting Monday for the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers. Edgar Ray Killen is charged with...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague Wednesday dismissed two charges against former Bosnian commander Naser Oric . The court ruled that charges that Oric's soldiers...

A leading Sunni Muslim group in Iraq announced Wednesday that it would not participate in writing the new Iraqi constitution unless Sunnis were given a fair number of seats on the drafting committee. The parliamentary committee in charge [JURIST...

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has upheld the drug conviction of a passenger found with cocaine during an airport security check. Sergio Ramon Marquez was randomly selected from a line...

The British government Wednesday announced proposals to stop the manufacture, import, and sale of the majority of replica guns available in the UK. The plan is part of the new Violent Crime Reduction Bill [PDF...

Palestinian detainees at Israel's Megiddo prison began a hunger strike on Wednesday as Israeli officials denied reports that prison guards there had abused the Koran, echoing similar stories from Guantanamo Bay . Prisoners complained that...

The British government announced Wednesday that it has agreed to extradite Algerian Rachid Ramda , held on a French arrest warrant for the past eight years in connection with a Paris bomb attack in 1995 that took the...