The US Sunday released approximately 80 Afghan detainees from custody at Bagram airbase north of Kabul and delivered them to the Afghan Supreme Court, where officials put them on buses home. The detainees were taken in after...
Thousands of Russians, many of them pensioners, marched in several major cities Saturday continuing four days week of protests against the Putin government's repeal of a Soviet-era social benefits law and its replacement by a program of minimal monthly...
A military jury at Fort Hood, Texas, has sentenced Army Spc. Charles Graner Jr. to 10 years in prison for abuses committed at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Earlier Saturday Graner took...
Transcript of a conversation between Justices Scalia and Breyer on foreign law in American constitutional adjudication, Washington College of Law, American University, January 13, 2005. Read the full text of the transcript here....
A defense witness testifying Thursday in the military trial of Spc. Charles Graner told the jury that intelligence officers at the Abu Ghraib prison told Graner and others what to do. Former military policewoman Megan Ambuhl [CDI...
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukoych Friday filed one last appeal over the December 26 presidential re-vote with the Ukrainian Supreme Court in a final legal bid to...
UNICEF spokesmen said Thursday that they have evidence that Tamil Tiger rebels in northern and eastern Sri Lanka have recruited children in tsunami relief camps as child soldiers to help their ongoing struggle for autonomy...
An Iranian court has summoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi for questioning on an undisclosed matter, indicating that she must appear by Sunday or face prison. Ebadi, Iran's first female judge, won the Nobel in...
Mark Thatcher , the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has been fined 3 million rand ($500,000) by a court in South Africa in connection with his role in a plot to overthrow the...
US Army Spc. Charles Graner may take the witness stand in his own defense Thursday on the second day of the defense case in his court-martial at Fort Hood TX for abusing Iraqi detainees...
