Several members of the anti-drug trafficking force of Mexican President Felipe Calderon , including Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino Terrazo , were killed Tuesday when their airplane crashed in Mexico City....
An Indonesian court on Wednesday sentenced former Bank Indonesia (BI) chief Burhanuddin Abdullah to five years in prison on corruption charges for knowingly approving the misappropriation of $10 million of the central bank's funds. Governor of BI...
The Russian State Duma , the country's lower house of parliament, on Wednesday unanimously approved military defense agreements signed with Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia last month. The...
The US Department of Defense announced Tuesday that the Office of Military Commissions Convening Authority has dismissed charges without prejudice against five Guantanamo Bay detainees. Noor Uthman Mohammed, Binyam Mohammed, Sufyiam Barhoumi, Ghassan Abdullah...
Human Rights Watch on Monday accused the Sudanese government of using a special prosecutor as "window dressing" to thwart an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation of war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region [JURIST...
Vietnam's Hanoi People's Court on Wednesday sentenced journalist Nguyen Viet Chien of Thanh Nien news agency to two years in prison for "abusing democratic freedoms" to infringe state interests for his reporting on the so-called PMU 18...
A judge on the Constitutional Court of Italy on Wednesday suspended the trial of 26 Americans and five former Italian intelligence officials for the 2003 abduction and rendition of...
Two classified memos sent from the Bush administration to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 explicitly sanctioned the use of certain harsh interrogation techniques, including waterboarding , the Washington Post reported Wednesday. The documents were reportedly...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday rejected an emergency request for provisional measures from the Georgian Republic to stop the alleged killing and mass displacement of citizens...
Bolivian President Evo Morales on Monday joined an estimated 10,000 supporters as they began a 120-mile march from Caracollo to La Paz seeking congressional approval ...
