A Zimbabwean judge has released 13 opposition activists held by the government because police faked evidence against them, defense lawyers said Thursday. All 13 belong to the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change , and had been held...
Avid anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan and 45 other protesters were arrested Monday at the US Capitol in Washington, DC after refusing to leave the office and hallway of Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) while calling for...
European Union (EU) foreign ministers decided Monday during a meeting in Brussels to step up their involvement in the UN-supervised independence plan for Kosovo , which has been at an impasse after running into intense...
US District Judge Amy St. Eve ruled in Chicago Thursday that Canadian-born financier and former media mogul Conrad Black will not have to await his November 30 sentencing in jail. St. Eve nonetheless put...
US District Judge John Bates Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against members of the Bush administration brought by Valerie Plame , the former CIA operative whose disclosed identity precipitated the 2003 CIA leak scandal [JURIST news...
Former Ugandan health minister Jim Muhwezi went to trial Monday on charges of embezzlement and abuse of office. Muhwezi is alleged to have misused $4.3 million in grants donated to the government of Uganda by the...
Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum admitted during a preliminary hearing Monday to killing Iraqis at Haditha in November 2005 but said he was acting pursuant to proper military protocol. Tatum is charged [news...
The US House Appropriations Committee voted Thursday to defeat two independent bids by lawmakers that would have repealed part or all of the "Tiahrt Amendment" , which since 2003 has restricted the public release of...
The latest proposal for a UN-supervised independence plan for Kosovo has been rejected by the Russian government, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday. The US, France and the UK offered the...
Former Chadian president Hissene Habre , who has been charged with crimes against humanity, will stand trial before a Senegalese criminal court, rather than before a special tribunal as previously decided, Senegal's Justice Minister Sheik...
