Zimbabwe prosecutors have dropped charges against six men accused of a plot to assassinate President Robert Mugabe , according to lawyers involved in the case speaking Wednesday. Media reports originally indicated that eight men had been charged, but police said Wednesday the number was only seven, and that only one, a policeman and former Rhodesian [...]

A panel of judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Wednesday convicted former Bosnian Muslim General Enver Hadzihasanovic and former Brigadier Amir Kubura for their failure to check or punish war atrocities committed against Bosnian Croat and Serb civilians by troops under their command during the Bosnian war from 1992-1995 . [...]

New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer Wednesday launched a $250 million lawsuit against H&R Block , the largest tax preparation service in the US, for fraudulently coaxing its customers into a retirement account plan that lost them money. Spitzer said that money in the retirement accounts decreased over time because the low interest rate did [...]

British police arrested five men on Wednesday for their suspected role in protests staged outside the Danish embassy in London on February 3 and 4 against the publication of Muhammad cartoons that first appeared in a Danish newspaper in September 2005. The arrests follow weeks of investigation by a special law enforcement team set up [...]

A lawyer for Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith, a medical officer in the UK's Royal Air Force , argued in a pre-trial military hearing Wednesday that his client was entitled to say in a court-martial defense against five charges of failing to comply with an order to serve in Iraq that the Iraq war was illegal. [...]

AP is reporting that the UN General Assembly has approved a resolution creating a new Human Rights Council by a 170-4 vote, despite US opposition. The new rights body will replace the widely criticized Commission on Human Rights . General Assembly President Jan Eliasson's proposal reflected months of negotiations between UN member countries, but the [...]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) monitored gatherings organized by the Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Justice , an anti-war activist organization based in Pittsburgh, according to documents released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) . The ACLU contends that the FBI based its investigation solely on the organization's political views, particularly [...]

In an unpublicized 18-page document circulated last year by National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley , the Bush administration altered the Adjudicative Guidelines for Determining Eligibility for Access to Classified Information , making changes which could allow the federal government to use sexual orientation as a factor in denying clearances to applicants. Under the old version [...]

The president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has directed the court's Trial Chamber to consider varying or lifting protective measures applied to certain materials in the case against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in order to assist Dutch authorities and the Tribunal's own team investigating the circumstances of Milosevic's death. Tribunal [...]

Saddam Hussein formally testified in his own defense for the first time Wednesday at his trial in Iraq, calling the Iraqi High Criminal Court a "comedy" before the hearing was closed to the public. Chief Judge Ra'uf Rasheed Abdel-Rahman closed the courtroom after Hussein called on Iraqis to put an end to sectarian violence and [...]