A lawyer for Bosnian Serb leader and former fugitive Radovan Karadzic on Thursday threatened to sue several unknown persons whom he alleges kidnapped Karadzic last week. Serbian officials have said that Karadzic was arrested...
A three-judge panel from the British Court of Appeal on Wednesday denied the appeals of five men convicted on charges of conspiring to cause death and suffering through a plan to detonate bombs in a crowded area...
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and the two other members of the Iraqi Presidency Council refused to sign a provincial election bill on Wednesday, noting that it had been passed by an incomplete parliament....
Italy will rework plans to fingerprint the country's Roma minority , altering requirements to only include those who do not have valid identification cards, the country's Interior Ministry announced Tuesday. The decision is seen as a concession...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Monday in Alabama's Montgomery County Circuit Court, challenging an Alabama law that prevents some convicted felons from voting. A 2003 amendment to the state...
Louisiana state prosecutors on Monday petitioned the US Supreme Court to reconsider its June decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana , where it found that imposing the death sentence for child rape where the...
Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win has called for the newly-established Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of ASEAN member nations. The comments, made during a Monday meeting to organize...
The Mexican government enacted a law Monday prohibiting the government from sending illegal immigrants to prison. In May, Mexican rights activists pressed Mexican President Felipe Calderón to sign the bill,...
The Malaysian government will table a bill at the August parliamentary session that would require criminal suspects to submit to DNA testing, according to a Monday report in the newspaper Nanyang Siang Pau . If passed,...
A divorced Lebanese woman told the UK Law Lords Monday that her human rights would be violated if she were deported to Lebanon, arguing that Lebanese Sharia law would put her and...
