Three senior Bush administration officials urged the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee to approve the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Thursday. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England...
An east Siberian court Friday ruled that former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky should remain in custody for another three months in order to prevent him from obstructing a new investigation into Khodorkovsky and...
The US Supreme Court issued a stay of execution Thursday for a a Texas inmate just hours before he was scheduled to be executed. Earlier this week, the Court granted certiorari [JURIST...
The South African Supreme Court of Appeal heard arguments Friday in the corruption case against former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma . The South African Prosecuting Authority (NPA) alleges that Zuma...
The Supreme Court of Chile ruled Friday that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori should be extradited to Peru to face human rights charges. The much anticipated decision was expected earlier...
Former Khmer Rouge official Nuon Chea has disputed charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to his detention order , published Friday by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website;...
Bangladesh suspended publication of weekly satire magazine Alpin Friday after hundreds of Bangladeshi Muslims protested the publication of a cartoon depicting a young boy and his "Muhammad cat," saying the cartoon ridiculed the Muslim prophet Muhammad....
German police have arrested Augustin Ngirabatware, a former Rwandan minister suspected of genocide in the 1994 Rwanda conflict between Hutus and Tutsis, German officials announced Thursday. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) accuses Ngirabatware...
International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is pushing world leaders to place the prosecution of war crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan on top of the agenda at a UN...
A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit Monday alleging that vehicle emissions of greenhouse gases have contributed to global warming constituting a "public nuisance" that has cost the state of California millions of dollars....
