The Law Lords , the judicial panel of the UK House of Lords that is Britain's highest court, ruled 5-0 Wednesday in favor of a high school's decision to ban a student from wearing a Muslim jilbab...
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday reduced the life sentence of former Bosnian Serb mayor Milomir Stakic to 40 years in...
A new report issued Tuesday by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe says that a resurgence in Serb nationalism evident after the death in detention of ex-Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic makes it...
Eighty-five year old Algimantas Dailide, a retired real estate broker from the Cleveland area who was deported from the United States in 2003 for lying about his past, went on trial Monday in his native Lithuania, charged with helping...
Canadian citizen Allen Abney, arrested earlier this month at a US border crossing for deserting the US Marine Corps in the Vietnam war, said Monday at his first public appearance since his release ...
The US Supreme Court declined certiorari in several high-profile appeals Monday but did not agree to consider any new cases. In Tucker v. United States, the Court refused to consider the appeal of former Arkansas Governor Jim...
Trial proceedings began Monday in Turkey for Syrian al Qaeda militant Loa'i Mohammad Haj Bakr al-Saqa , who is charged with masterminding and securing finances for the November 2003 bombings in Istanbul . Security forces say that...
Allen Abney was released from US military custody Thursday evening after his arrest last week for deserting the US Marine Corps in 1968. Abney, now a Canadian citizen, was born in the United States, but grew up...
Denmark's Director of Public Prosecutions Henning Fode has decided not to press criminal charges against Jyllands-Posten , the Danish newspaper that first published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad which last month...
New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer Wednesday launched a $250 million lawsuit against H&R Block , the largest tax preparation service in the US, for fraudulently coaxing its customers into a retirement account plan...
