An Indonesian court Tuesday rejected a request to drop a pollution case against US gold mining company Newmont Mining and the company's local subsidiary president director Richard Ness. Ness, from Ada, MN, will stand trial on October 7 and faces up to 10 years in prison and a $68,000 fine if convicted of dumping mercury [...]

Carla del Ponte, the United Nations' chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia , said Monday that the Roman Catholic Church and Vatican officials are concealing the location of the third most wanted war criminal from the Yugoslav conflict, General Ante Gotovina . Gotovina is believed to be hiding in a [...]

A lawyer for Saddam Hussein said Tuesday that his defense team still has not been informed by Iraqi authorities of the trial date and charges pressed against the ousted Iraqi leader and reiterated doubts about the impartiality of the proceeding. Khalil Dulaimi said in a statement to AFP, "We have not been duly informed about [...]

A lawyer for 11 detainees held at Guantanamo Bay says that 90 percent of the 505 prison camp detainees are participating in a hunger strike in "varying degrees," while US military officials have said that only 91 detainees are participating. The military defines a hunger strike as missing 9 or more consecutive meals, while Kristine [...]

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali , an American student who was detained in Saudi Arabia, claims to be the mastermind behind the plot to kill President Bush , according to court papers released Monday. The US Department of Justice, who charged Abu Ali for his role in the plot and for his link to al-Qaeda , [...]

David Safavian , a former Bush administration official who served as the chief of staff of the General Services Administration (GSA) and until Friday served as the administration's top procurement official in the Office of Management and Budget , was charged Monday with making false statements and obstructing a federal investigation. The charges stem from [...]

Simon Wiesenthal, an Austrian Holocaust survivor who helped to track down over 1,000 Nazi war criminals after World War II, including Adolf Eichmann and the policeman who arrested Anne Frank, died in his sleep at age 96 Tuesday. Rabbi Marvin Hier, the founder and dean of the Los-Angeles based Simon Wiesenthal Center said Wiesenthal, a [...]

Mexican prosecutor Ignacio Carrillo has made a second bid to arrest former Mexican president Luis Echeverria in connection with killings of student protesters, according to a statement made Monday by Echeverria's lawyer. Dozens of students and other civilians were killed on October 2, 1968 when police and military officials opened fire on them during a [...]

British forces freed two British soldiers from an Iraqi jail Monday, though British and Iraqi officials are offering different accounts of what happened. The two freed British soldiers, thought to be undercover commandos, were arrested by the Iraqis earlier Monday for shooting two Iraqi policeman, one of whom died. Mohammed al-Walli, governor of Basra, said [...]

The trial of 15 Uzbek men , accused of organizing the May 2005 Andijan uprising which led to government troops killing as many as 500 protestors began Tuesday, but human rights groups are questioning the credibility of the proceedings. The 15 men sat in a metal cage in Uzbekistan's Supreme Court, as the charges, which [...]