The Iraqi High Tribunal heard more tapes on Tuesday in which the voice of defendant Ali Hassan al-Majid vowed to "leave no Kurd who speaks the Kurd language" and to "wipe...
US President George Bush announced Tuesday that Fred F. Fielding will serve as the new White House counsel . Fielding, who has advised Bush throughout his presidency and sat on the 9/11 Commission , will...
The number of detainees on hunger-strike at Guantanamo Bay has increased this month to 11 from five as the detention center's fifth anniversary approaches on Thursday. US military spokesman have in the past insisted that...
British judges have rejected a UK government proposal that government ministers say would simplify sentencing and increase judicial discretion in dealing with serious criminals, calling it a "kneejerk reaction" to an earlier sentencing scandal over the possibility...
The war crimes Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina convicted its third defendant in one week on Friday when it sentenced Dragan Damjanovic to twenty years in prison. Damjanovic was found guilty on six of the...
European leaders are pushing to revive the European Constitution after its ratification by the Finnish parliament last week. Leaders of Spain and Luxembourg have called a conference in January for the sixteen EU member...
Federal prosecutors have charged sixteen Bosnian Serb immigrants with immigration fraud for allegedly lying about their military experiences during the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia, the US Department of Justice announced Friday. One of those...
An Alabama jury returned a verdict in favor of pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. on Friday, concluding that the drug Vioxx did not cause the plaintiff in the case to suffer a heart attack....
Israel's High Court ruled on Wednesday that construction of a 1.5-mile sector of the country's security fence in northeast Jerusalem could continue, denying an appeal by residents of a Palestinian neighborhood left outside. After...
In a special session Wednesday the UN Human Rights Council approved a resolution to send a mission to Sudan to investigate human rights abuses in Darfur . Council President Luis Alfonso de Alba announced...
