The EU on Friday extended its deadline for Serbia to hand over wanted war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic to April 30 after chief ICTY prosecutor Carla del Ponte [BBC News profile,...
Tony Rudy , former deputy chief of staff and press secretary to US Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) , pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy Friday. Rudy admitted to working with convicted lobbyist Jack...
Abdul Rahman , currently facing the death penalty in Afghanistan for converting from Islam to Christianity, has appealed for asylum, UN spokesman Adrian Edwards said Monday. Earlier Monday, several hundred people responded...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday softened HR 4437 , the controversial immigration reform bill passed by the House in December, by adopting an amendment by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) that...
Abortion rights activists in South Dakota on Friday announced that they will seek a referendum that will overturn the state's newly-enacted abortion ban . The campaign , led by the South Dakota...
A District Court in Belgrade said Monday it would close an outstanding case against late Yugoslav ex-president Slobodan Milosevic for "organizing the murder" of former Serbian president Ivan Stambolic, according to private news agency BETA ....
As anticipated , Thomas Lubanga , founder of the militant Union of Patriotic Congolese , appeared in the International Criminal Court at The Hague Monday, accused of using child...
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is making slow progress in its efforts to set up a regional human rights watchdog, officials from the organization announced Friday. Representatives from the four member countries suggesting the establishment...
China's practice of "internet management" continued Friday with a 10-year sentence for Ren Ziyaun, a teacher found guilty of "subversion of state power" after posting "The Road to Democracy" and other essays on the Internet. According...
Serbian President Boris Tadic Monday blamed the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for the unexpected death of Slobodan Milosevic on Saturday, telling the Associated Press that...
