Western elections observers and opposition leaders have raised doubts as to the fairness of the reelection of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev , who won 91 percent of the vote Sunday. The Organization for Security and Cooperation...
War crimes prosecutors and former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic were in rare agreement Tuesday in their opposition to a proposal by judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday handed down a unanimous decision in Lincoln Property v. Roche , reversing the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, holding that a lawsuit filed...
The Australian House of Representatives passed the federal government's anti-terrorism bill Monday night, without amendments requested by a coalition Senate committee and by members of the Labor Party. The committee recommended [JURIST...
Arab news channel Aljazeera is considering taking legal action against President George W. Bush, after disclosures that the US president allegedly suggested bombing the broadcaster's headquarters in Doha, Qatar, in the spring of 2004. Last week, two...
Britain's Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has asked Home Secretary Charles Clarke to approve an investigation into the way Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair handled the July subway shooting of Brazilian...
China's former minister of land and natural resources, Tian Fengshan , was charged Monday with accepting bribes of nearly 5 million yuan, or $619,000. Tian has been in custody since 2004 when he was removed from...
Senators in the Parliament of Australia tabled a report Monday recommending changes to proposed anti-terror laws . The current proposal permits suspects to be detained up to 14 days without...
Austria has joined several other countries investigating whether the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conducted unauthorized flights through their airspace in 2003 while transporting terror detainees. An Austrian air force commander told state radio that a US...
Defense lawyers in the Saddam Hussein trial announced Thursday that they will attend the next session of the trial scheduled for November 28 despite the recent assassination of two of their colleagues. The defense team had...
