Khieu Samphan , the former head of state of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime, left his home overnight and headed toward a neighboring province, just hours after prosecutors began compiling evidence against former Khmer...
Colorado state lawmakers passed a bill Monday that will force residents receiving state or federal benefits to prove their citizenship in order to continue receiving aid, in what some are calling one of the toughest...
Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman , presiding over the Saddam Hussein trial , on Tuesday adjourned the trial until July 24 in a bid to give Hussein and his lawyers time to return from a boycott of proceedings....
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) killed the self-confessed mastermind of the 2004 Beslan school siege along with 12 other militants in an early morning special operation Monday, according...
The US military has decided to apply the Geneva Conventions to all detainees held in US military custody around the world, according to Tuesday's Financial Times. The move marks a sharp reversal from a previous policy classifying...
Prosecutors working for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal began formal investigation Monday of criminal acts allegedly committed by surviving leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime, which ruled Cambodia from 1975-1978...
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said on Monday that Japan is considering whether launching a pre-emptive strike on North Korean missile bases would violate its constitution if there is no other option to prevent an attack...
The government of Sri Lanka said Monday that it will propose constitutional reform in a series of meetings beginning Tuesday in a bid to end a two decade old civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels [faction...
Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker on Monday filed an emergency appeal with the Georgia Supreme Court on behalf of Governor Sonny Perdue , asking the court to overturn a lower court judge's Friday decision...
The British government is sending Home Office minister Baroness Scotland to the US on Thursday to push for US ratification of the treaty aligning extradition requests between the two nations, which the UK...
