Families of the tsunami victims are pressuring the British government to amend the rules for when missing persons can be legally declared dead. Lord Charles Falconer announced today that legislators hoped to create a system to waive...

Human rights group Amnesty International Tuesday urged the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Sudan to the International Criminal Court at The Hague. The group argued that the UN must allow the ICC...

In Tuesday's international brief, the Russian government has rejected a petition initiated Monday by KPRF , the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, requesting a Duma vote of no-confidence. The government denied...

Iran's judiciary has said that a mistake was to blame for the issuance of a summons to Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi , calling her to appear before the Revolutionary Court [Iranian Judiciary official...

AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court denied Tuesday an appeal over government's use of military trials for foreign detainees accused of terrorism. JURIST's Paper Chase will have more information as the order list becomes available.10:45 AM ET...

Members of the Cobb County school board have voted to appeal a federal district judge's ruling that stickers calling evolution a "theory, not a fact" should be removed from science textbooks. Board members...

Trials involving former corporate leaders of Tyco International and WorldCom, now MCI, are both set to begin this week, with both expected to last weeks to months, as the executives are tried on a variety...

A UK soldier facing court-martial in Germany on charges of mistreating Iraqi civilians pleaded guilty Tuesday to one assault charge, but denied another charge. Two other soldiers from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers , Corp. Daniel Kenyon and...

AP is reporting that Ukraine's Supreme Court has said that the country's presidential election results can be published Wednesday, which will allow challenger Viktor Yushchencko to take office.8:35 AM ET - The Ukrainian Supreme Court ...

Adolfo Scilingo , the former Argentine naval officer on trial in Spain for committing genocide and crimes against humanity during Argentina's "Dirty War" , took the stand for the first time...