Four members of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang go on trial Tuesday in California as the government attempts to bring an end to the white supremacist group. Altogether, twenty members of the gang face eventual trial in...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia formally closed its war crimes case against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic Tuesday, three days after he was found dead in his cell over...
The Supreme Court of Indonesia has denied the appeal of pro-Indonesia militia leader Eurico Guterres for charges stemming from his involvement in massacres that occurred during the 1999 violence in East...
A former Iraqi judge on trial with Saddam Hussein testified Monday in Baghdad that he sentenced 148 Shiites to death after a 1982 assassination attempt on the former dictator in the town of Dujail, but asserted...
The annual six-week meeting of the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva was suspended after just four minutes on Monday to give the 191 member governments of the UN General Assembly more time to...
A new report released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center estimates that the total number of illegal immigrants in the US has risen to some 12 million, despite US government attempts to crack down on inflow....
The Netherlands cabinet is set to decide later this month whether to go forward with a ban against Muslim women wearing the niqab , the Muslim religious veil similar to a burqa that leaves only a...
The US House of Representatives Tuesday approved a bill to bolster anti-counterfeiting laws expected to prevent billions of dollars in losses to US manufacturers. The Stop Counterfeiting in Manufactured Goods Act , passed by the Senate...
UN General Assembly President Jan Eliasson said Monday that he is "encouraged" by the public support of five Nobel Peace Prize winners for the proposed UN Human Rights Council. Former US president Jimmy Carter [official...
French President Jacques Chirac , German Chancellor Angela Merkel , and other conservative European politicians have been meeting in private to discuss plans to revive the European Constitution [official...
