A Dutch court on Monday rejected a request to ban a political party that wants to lower the age of sexual consent from 16 to 12, saying "the freedom to set up a political party" can be viewed as...
The US Senate continues debate Tuesday on embryonic stem cell research funding with a vote set for Tuesday afternoon on the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act to provide government funding for stem...
The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Monday added war crimes to the charges against Momcilo Mandic, the former Bosnian Serb justice minister in the wartime government under Radovan Karadzic [ICTY case...
A court in Serbia issued a new international arrest warrant Monday for Mirjana Markovic , the wife of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic . The court issued the warrant because Markovic on multiple occasions has failed...
The government of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is planning to introduce a new law that will clear victims' names and "correct" trial records in an effort to bring justice to victims of former Spanish...
Leaders of the US House of Representatives have decided to move forward with a vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment , which would amend the US constitution to ban same-sex marriage, despite...
British officials from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have decided not to prosecute any individual police officers for the death of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot and killed by London police...
Saddam Hussein and three co-defendants have entered their tenth day of a hunger strike protesting the lack of security for defense lawyers in their trial, US military spokesman Lt. Col. Keir-Kevin Curry said Monday....
The United States will not help Germany investigate the alleged abduction of Khaled el-Masri , a Lebanese born German citizen who claims that the US Central Intelligence Agency seized him in Macedonia in 2003 in...
Israel is using "internationally prohibited weapons against civilians" in Lebanon as the country faces "real annihilation," according to a statement from Lebanon Information Minister Ghazi Aridi Sunday after an emergency cabinet meeting. Lebanese media reports state that Israel used...
