Mexican leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has asked Mexico's Federal Electoral Court to order a manual recount of returns from the July 2 presidential election,...
Saddam Hussein, along with several co-defendants and defense lawyers, boycotted trial proceedings Monday at the Iraq High Tribunal as the defense was scheduled to begin closing arguments. The court did hear from a lawyer for defendant...
Cyrus Kar , the Los Angeles-based filmmaker of Iranian descent and US Navy veteran detained by US forces in Iraq for 55 days, has sued Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other top military officials in...
The trial of six men accused of war crimes in Kosovo in 1999, including former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic , began at the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Monday. Milutinovic and his five co-defendants - former...
The first federal trial relating to insurance coverage for property damage caused by Hurricane Katrina begins Monday in Gulfport, Mississippi. In the lawsuit against Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company , a Mississippi homeowner is...
US Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) , chairman of the House Intelligence Committee , said that the Bush administration may have violated the law by failing to brief the committee on intelligence activities, in a May 18 letter...
A court in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg Friday threw out a ban on women teachers wearing religious headscarves . The case originated when Baden-Wuerttemberg passed a law in 2004 forbidding "outward expressions...
Japan circulated a new UN Security Council draft resolution on Friday, tougher than a previous draft resolution circulated earlier this week , that would direct states to take whatever steps necessary to prevent North Korea...
Rebels in Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rejected an offer of amnesty from Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Friday, calling the offer redundant. Museveni promised rebel leader Joseph Kony conditional amnesty...
An appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Friday increased the sentence for former Rwandan mayor Sylvestre Gacumbitsi to life in prison , revising his 30-year prison sentence ,...
