An Afghan journalism student charged with blasphemy was sentenced to death Tuesday, following a recommendation from the Afghan Council of Mullahs. A three-judge panel found that papers printed from the Internet by 23-year-old Sayad Parwez Kambaksh, allegedly including discussion...
The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Tuesday released a report criticizing the United Kingdom's voting system for its vulnerability to fraud. A February 2007 fact-finding trip conducted by a PACE committee...
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Tuesday praised a bill passed Saturday by the Iraqi parliament that would allow most members of Saddam Hussein's now-defunct Baath Party to be reinstated to...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Tuesday urged the Sri Lankan government to abide by international law as a 2002 ceasefire with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) [group website;...
A judge on one of Pakistan's anti-corruption Accountability Courts Tuesday dismissed charges against former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto following her December 27 assassination . Charges that Bhutto possessed assets beyond...
New International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz does not plan to amend his predecessor's tough stance on Serbian cooperation, Reuters reported an ICTY spokeswoman as saying Monday....
A former defense lawyer for German Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison Monday after being convicted of incitement and insulting the court during Zundel's original trial in 2005. Throughout Zundel's...
The European Commission (EC) Monday announced formal investigations into two new allegations that Microsoft has abused its dominant market position regarding a range of Internet and operating system software. The EC will...
US Magistrate Judge John Facciola Tuesday ordered the White House to report within five business days whether the millions of e-mails from 2003 to 2005 that have been deleted from White House servers in...
A class of over forty Georgia inmates filed suit Tuesday in the US District Court for Middle District of Georgia , seeking compensation for alleged widespread physical abuse - including two deaths - and intimidation of prisoners statewide....
