Hundreds of people have lobbied Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office for the position of hangman for Saddam Hussein if he is actually executed, according to the New York Times Saturday. A top aide to Maliki...
Mexican ex-president Luis Echeverria was found unable to undergo a psychological examination Friday due to his deteriorating health, according to his lawyer. The former president, who held office from 1970 to 1976, has...
The US Senate passed a bill by voice vote Friday that would make obtaining phone records through fraud or lying a criminal act. People found guilty of so-called "pretexting" would face fines and imprisonment...
The European Union announced a provisional deal Monday for the establishment of an EU agency on fundamental rights, which would build upon the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia [official...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) accepted into evidence Monday a controversial report on the events leading up to the 1994 Rwandan genocide written by French anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere...
Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security has recommended the appointment of an independent reviewer to oversee the nation's counter-terrorism laws . In a report Monday reviewing the country's security...
The government of Turkey has officially condemned an Argentinean bill that refers to the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey around the time of World War I as genocide and establishes a day of annual commemoration on...
The US Supreme Court announced in a one line order Monday that it would not grant a temporary stay in a case involving federal investigators' access to the phone records of two New York Times...
The Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Kinshasa Monday rejected a legal challenge by Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba to the official results of last month's...
French foreign minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said Sunday that the issuance of arrest warrants for nine senior Rwandan government officials relating to the 1994 plane crash of President Juvenal Habyariman was simply a judicial act by...
