French anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere has recommended that Rwandan President Paul Kagame stand trial for the 1994 killing of former president Juvenal Habyarimana , which sparked the country's genocide [HRW backgrounder; BBC...
Losing leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador held a ceremony Monday to establish himself as the "moral" president of Mexico in his latest attempt to develop a parallel government for...
Former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn pleaded not guilty Wednesday to four felony charges stemming from her role in the corporate spying scandal . Dunn is one of five...
The German Federal Court of Justice Thursday found Moroccan-born Mounir al-Motassadeq guilty of assisting the men who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks on the US. The...
US President George Bush on Wednesday renominated six candidates for federal appeals court judgeships, at least four of whom Democrats have already rejected . Senate rules require nominations to be resubmitted after a recess longer...
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud Wednesday rejected his cabinet's approval of a UN draft proposal for an international judicial tribunal to try suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik...
The Labour Party government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged Wednesday to "put victims at the heart of the criminal justice system support the police and all those responsible for the public's safety" in its new legislative...
The US decision to build a 700-mile fence along the US-Mexican border is "inhumane," a senior Vatican official said Tuesday while delivering Pope Benedict XVI's yearly message on migrants . Cardinal Renato Martino, head...
The US Department of Justice argued Monday that immigrants arrested while in the US and labeled as enemy combatants under an expansive definition in the new Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA)...
Eleven former Abu Ghraib detainees and one Guantanamo detainee all claiming to have been victims of US torture initiated a criminal complaint in Germany...
