The US military announced Thursday that the former commander of the 451st Military Police Detachment responsible for the detention facility at Camp Cropper near Baghdad has been charged with multiple offences under the Uniform Code...
Judges in Pakistan have postponed two separate proceedings in the case of suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry as criticism of President Pervez Musharraf's effective sacking of the country's chief magistrate continues. On...
The constitutional crisis in Ecuador deepened Tuesday as the country's Congress struck back at high court judges who on Monday had ordered the reinstatement of 50 lawmakers opposed to President Rafael Correa [official...
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson expressed hope Monday that the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech that left 33 people - including the gunman - dead in the largest...
Lord Woolf , former Lord Chief Justice of English and Wales, told BBC Radio in an interview broadcast Tuesday that shifting the traditional position of Lord Chancellor into a new Ministry of Justice split...
Some 3000 Pakistani lawyers and anti-government activists demonstrated outside the Supreme Court building in Islamabad Tuesday as suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry arrived for his sixth hearing before Pakistan's Supreme Judicial Council [governing constitutional...
Ecuador's Constitutional Tribunal Monday reinstated some 50 members of the country's Congress dismissed last month by order of Ecuador's electoral tribunal after they were found to have illegally interfered...
The head of Nigeria's electoral commission announced Monday that ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Umaru Yar'Adua won the country's weekend presidential election by a landslide - taking 24.6 million votes as against...
Boris Yeltsin , Russia's first elected president and the primary architect of the country's shift towards democratic government in the 1990s, died Monday, according to Russian wire services. Yeltsin was 76 and had a history of health problems,...
The hanging of Saddam-era Iraqi vice-president Taha Ramadan before dawn Baghdad time Tuesday drew a disavowal from the United States and condemnation from Russia as the international community reacted to an execution that UN...
