Leading Monday's international brief, Sudan's domestic war crimes tribunal is scheduled to hold its first hearings Tuesday in the capital city of Khartoum, according to Sudanese Justice Minister Ali Mohammed Yassin. Yassin said that over 160 individuals indicted on...

The trial of reputed Ku Klux Klan member Edgar Ray Killen began on Monday with jury selection in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Killen is charged in connection with the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers. About...

Outspoken Serbian human rights activist Natasa Kandic of Belgrade's the Humanitarian Law Center said Monday that war crimes suspect Gen. Ratko Mladic is preparing his surrender to the International Criminal Tribunal for the...

Lawyers for detainees being held at Guantanamo say as many as six of those being held were captured before they turned 18 . One lawyer says his client was not even 15 when captured, and...

The National People's Assembly in Algeria on Monday began debating the country's first draft law to try and combat widespread corruption that has thus far hindered foreign investment in the oil-rich nation. According to a 2003 report...

Despite reforms giving women the right to vote, drive, and run for many government offices, hundreds of Iranian women staged a protest on Sunday demanding a right still denied them - the right to run for president...

A man identified from a graphic video shot during the Srebrenica massacre of Bosnian Muslims in 1995 was arrested on Monday in Croatia. Slobodan Davidovic had recently admitted to the New York Times [New...

The Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) said Monday that an Iraqi investigatory judge has questioned former dictator Saddam Hussein regarding the killing of nearly 160 men in the predominantly-Shiite village of Dujail, a case identified last week [JURIST...

In a significant denial of certiorari Monday, the US Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge by accused "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla to his status as an enemy combatant after Padilla asked...

The US Supreme Court on Monday let stand without comment a lower court ruling that overturned new FCC regulations that would have allowed greater media consolidation. Several major media conglomerates, including News Corp. , Clear Channel ,...