Callixte Kalimanzira, Rwanda's interior minister during the 1994 genocide , pleaded not guilty to three counts of genocide and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Monday. Kalimanzira surrendered to the...
CIA interrogators tried to cover up the death of a man who died while being questioned at Abu Ghraib prison, according to a TIME magazine report published Sunday. The death of Manadel al-Jamadi [Wikipedia...
President Bush is set to sign a bill this week providing for US military assistance to Nepal if its government "has restored civil liberties, is protecting human rights, and has demonstrated, through dialogue with Nepal's...
Lawyers for former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic are urging another postponement in his trial for war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , which has now spanned...
Four people were killed Saturday in continued violence over proposed changes to the Kenyan constitution as police tried to break up an anti-constitution rally in Mombassa, where President Mwai Kibaki , a...
The UN-Afghan Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) said Monday that final results of Afghanistan's legislative polls will be announced on Wednesday , and that fraud allegations will not call the results into question. The September...
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was arrested in Chile on Monday at the request of the Peruvian government. Fujimori had arrived from Japan in a bid to reenter Peru and run for the presidency in...
International voting observers and opposition leaders on Monday challenged the victory claimed by the ruling party in Sunday's Azerbaijan elections, saying that the elections were rigged. According to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in four cases, including one where the Court will clarify the rights of illegal immigrants upon reentering the United States after having been deported. In Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales...
A military tribunal began hearings Monday in the case of a US Army sergeant accused of killing two of his superior officers in Iraq. The Article 32 hearing will determine whether Staff Sergeant...
