The UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has said that it will allow former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj to participate in politics during his provisional release pending his war crimes trial....
The Swedish government plans to introduce a new law that would require anyone held on reasonable suspicion of a crime to provide a DNA sample to be kept in a national registry. Swedish Justice Minister Thomas Bodstrom ...
Turkish prosecutors have rejected a demand by Ankara's deputy governor to shut down a new homosexual association. The governor's office urged that the title and purpose of the Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Association [official website,...
Britain's House of Lords on Thursday upheld legislation which makes hunting wild mammals with dogs throughout England and Wales a criminal offense. The 1949 Parliament Act was used late last year to push the Hunting Act...
The Philippine government has agreed "in principle" to give southern Muslims the authority to develop their own tax system, build their own institutions, and write their own charter, according to a report in Thursday's Philippine Daily...
Afghanistan's defense ministry said Monday that the country is preparing prison facilities to hold detainees who are expected to be transferred from the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay . Defense ministry spokesman General Mohammad Zahir Azimi...
The United Nations is expecting a large turn-out for Saturday's Iraqi constitution referendum , including in areas dominated by Sunni Arabs who have voiced opposition to the charter. The UN's top global election...
Indonesia moved the three masterminds behind the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings to a higher security jail Tuesday to wait out their time on death row, just one day before the third anniversary of the...
US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Friday that the date for the start of the trial of Saddam Hussein will not be changed from October 19, despite reports from a British...
A Turkish court Friday sentenced the editor of Agos , a weekly bilingual Turkish and Armenian-language newspaper, to six months in prison for "insulting and weakening Turkish identity in the media" in several articles he published...
