Vladimir Kovacevic , a Serbian commander charged with war crimes for his part in the 1991 attack on the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, has been declared unfit to stand trial because of...
US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) Sunday urged President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to go public about their roles in disclosure of classified information in the CIA leak case ....
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's personal envoy on human rights has told the Observer newspaper in an interview published Sunday that some Iraqis who have been detained by Coalition forces since the start of the war in Iraq have...
The Israeli Justice Ministry said Sunday that Israel will declare Prime Minister Ariel Sharon officially incapacitated on Tuesday. Sharon has been in a coma since suffering a massive stroke in early January. Acting...
Thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators took to the streets in Nepal's capital of Kathmandu Sunday despite a Saturday-imposed curfew and threats from the government to shoot violators on sight. Scuffles with police, one death, and numerous injuries were...
Members of the private Minuteman Civil Defense Corps have begun a new month-long campaign in US states bordering Mexico and Canada to raise public awareness of illegal immigration. Minuteman volunteers watch the borders...
A controversial French labor law that has prompted strikes and mass demonstrations by students and workers across France was officially published Sunday in France's Journal officiel gazette after being signed by President Jacques Chirac . The...
Former Liberian president and accused war criminal Charles Taylor is set to make his first appearance in the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) before Justice Richard Lussick at Freetown on Monday,...
France's Interior Minister and anticipated 2007 French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has called for a compromise over a new youth labor law - the so-called First Employment Contract (contrat première embauche, CPE)...
The UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) Sunday called on the Nigerian government to immediately detain former Liberian president and accused war criminal Charles Taylor so that he does not disappear before being...
