FBI Assistant Director of Public Affairs John Miller said Wednesday during an interview with C-SPAN that an FBI report expected to be released next week will detail a nationwide increase in murders, robberies and other violent crimes...
Judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) who will preside over the Khmer Rouge genocide trials met Thursday to resolve remaining disputes between Cambodian and international jurists concerning the internal regulations of the...
New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch signed a bill Thursday allowing same-sex couples to enter into civil unions with the "same rights, responsibilities, and obligations as married couples" beginning in January 2008. Lynch...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled 2-1 Wednesday that the brother of dissident Cyrus Elahi, assassinated in Paris in 1990, can collect on a default judgment he holds against Iran by attaching a...
Lebanese National Assembly speaker Nabih Berri joined Syria Thursday in condemning the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1757 unilaterally establishing an ad hoc tribunal to investigate and try suspects in the...
Hamid Khan, a lawyer for the Pakistan Bar Council , argued before the Supreme Court of Pakistan Thursday that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's March 9 suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry [official website;...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Thursday urged international donors to increase their contributions to the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) , echoing a plea by prosecutor Stephen Rapp who warned Wednesday that the...
Approximately 30 Chinese demonstrators carrying banners massed outside the Japanese embassy in Beijing Thursday, protesting a April 27 court ruling by the Supreme Court of Japan denying compensation claims made by five Chinese wartime slave...
Japan's Nagoya High Court Thursday upheld a district court's denial of compensation to a group of seven South Korean women who were former slave laborers at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s aircraft factories during World War II, finding...
A Saudi Arabian detainee held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay died Wednesday afternoon in what military officials characterized as an apparent suicide . The officials did not identify the...
