A Chinese lawyer and outspoken critic of the Chinese government has accused authorities of torturing him to confess to subversion charges, according to letters and recordings that were recently made public by a fellow activist. Gao Zhisheng ...
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Tuesday slightly reduced the 32-year sentence of former Bosnian Serb leader Radislav Brdjanin , but upheld the...
The Nigerian Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has the right to disqualify presidential candidates for fraud, thus barring Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar from running...
Taiwanese Nationalist Party (KMT) leader Ma Ying-jeou pleaded not guilty Tuesday to corruption charges and said he plans to run in the 2008 presidential elections no matter...
Thousands of protesters rallied outside the Pakistan Supreme Court Tuesday wearing signs and shouting chants against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for suspending the country's chief justice last month as a hearing...
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has directed the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to register the same-sex marriages of 26 couples from outside the state whose licenses were not previously allowed to be...
The European Commission is investigating Apple's iTunes to determine if sales restrictions based on the buyer's country of residence violate EU antitrust laws, according to a commission statement confirming the probe Tuesday....
Dutch prosecutors Monday sought to introduce documents from the ongoing genocide trial of Saddam-era Iraqi officials for the gassing deaths of Kurds in the so-called "Anfal" campaign to oppose an appeal...
Iraqi prosecutors Monday sought the death penalty for Ali Hassan al-Majid , the cousin of Saddam Hussein known to Western media as "Chemical Ali" for allegedly using poisonous gas to clear Kurdish...
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has submitted an application to be transferred to a prison near his home in South Australia to serve the remainder of his nine-month sentence after pleading...
