Former president of Liberia Charles Taylor is being requested to testify at the trial of a Dutch timber trader indicted for facilitating the import of weapons to Liberia in exchange for timber, a...
Fresh talks between French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and French trade union leaders over the new First Employment Contract (CPE) labor law ended in deadlock Friday with the government...
Early Friday morning local time, Belarus police swept down on hundreds of demonstrators camped out in Minsk's Oktyabrskaya Square in protest against the results of last Sunday's presidential elections which returned Alexander Lukashenko [official website; BBC...
A spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry said Thursday that the case of a detained Chinese researcher who worked for the New York Times is being dealt with according to Chinese law. Zhao Yan has been...
A Belgrade court has reinstated an arrest warrant against the widow of ex-Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic after she failed to attend a court appearance scheduled for Thursday. Mira Markovic was charged...
The UN Commission on Human Rights was formally abolished Wednesday by a resolution of the UN Economic and Social Council adopted without a formal vote. The resolution calls for the completion of...
The largest UK trial of terrorism suspects since al Qaeda's September 11 attacks on the United States got under way in London's Old Bailey Tuesday with seven British men facing charges of planning bombings in Britain in retaliation...
UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke told a UK Commons committee Tuesday that he has not given up on the option of detaining suspected terrorists for up to 90 days without charge, and may introduce additional legislation...
No federal civil rights charges will be filed in the 1955 killing of Emmett Till , according to an FBI statement issued Thursday citing the expiration of a five year statute of limitations. Till, a 14-year...
The European Parliament Thursday urged Senegal to provide for a fair trial of former Chad President Hissene Habre , either in Senegal or through extradition to Belgium, which has issued...
