The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) sentenced a former Rwandan army officer to 25 years in prison on Tuesday on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity connected to the...
An Israeli military court Tuesday ordered the release of 21 Palestinian lawmakers, including three cabinet ministers, who were detained following the Hamas capture of Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit in Gaza in June. Prosecutors are appealing...
International human rights groups have denounced China's release of new media regulations governing the domestic release of news and information by foreign news agencies. The regulations, which give China's official Xinhua News Agency ultimate rights of...
Palestinian refugees in Iraq face danger from Shiite militias and harassment from the Iraqi government, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a new report released Sunday. The monitoring group found that the...
China Sunday released new media regulations governing the domestic release of news and information by foreign news agencies. The regulations give China's official Xinhua News Agency ultimate rights of approval over the distribution and release of...
Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has been served with a summons for a lawsuit by a group of Jewish Iranians while on a two-week visit to the United States . The lawsuit was filed Thursday in...
UN humanitarian coordinator Jan Egeland said on a visit to a refugee camp in northern Uganda Saturday that indicted leaders of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) should be brought before the...
A bill designed to put the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program on a sound legal footing failed to make it out of the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday. Sponsored by...
A Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote on whether to confirm the nomination of John Bolton as permanent US ambassador to the United Nations was postponed Thursday after Senator Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) ...
Defense lawyer Badih Aref Izzat, representing a co-defendant in Saddam Hussein's trial , announced Thursday that his assistant had been found murdered in Baghdad. Abdel Monem Yassin Hussein is said to have been kidnapped on August 29...
