Russian authorities are wrongly indicting thousands of citizens every year, Russian Prosecutor-General Yury Chaika said Tuesday at a Moscow meeting held to discuss compensation for those falsely charged. Chaika said that in...
Zimbabwe will not return former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam to Ethiopia to face a death sentence, a Zimbabwean Information Ministry official said Tuesday. The Ethiopian Supreme Court sentenced Mengistu to death in absentia...
Egyptian parliamentarians voted 305-103 Monday to extend the country's emergency laws for two more years at the behest of the government. The laws, which were first implemented after the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, permit...
Security officials in Nepal banned protests and rallies near the royal palace and the residence of King Gyanendra on Monday, in anticipation of Wednesday's expected abolition of the Nepalese monarchy. Nepal's interim parliament...
Mengistu Haile Mariam , the former Marxist president of Ethiopia , was sentenced to death Monday after the Ethiopian Supreme Court allowed Ethiopian prosecutors' appeal of his January 2007 life sentence ...
Luis Moreno-Ocampo chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) , told Reuters Sunday that the ICC was investigating possible new war crimes committed by the Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army...
National Iranian Oil Co. Director of International Affairs Hojatollah Ghanimi Fard derided US bill HR 6074 on Saturday, calling it "inexpert" and "a projection of US economic problems" in an interview with Shana...
Jean-Pierre Bemba , a former rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo , was arrested Saturday by Belgian authorities at his home outside of Brussels, after the International Criminal...
The US will re-check its detention records to verify the accuracy of a report filed last week by US officials with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child concerning the number...
The German Bundesrat , the upper house of the German parliament, voted Friday to approve the EU reform treaty, known formally as the Treaty of Lisbon . All but one of the sixteen states...
