Chief of the Russian Military General Staff Yuri Baluyevsky told Russian media Thursday that Russia might unilaterally opt out of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty (INF) if the US continues efforts...
The judiciary committee of the Montana Senate endorsed a bill Thursday that would abolish the death penalty . By an 8-4 margin, the committee voted to send the SB...
Former Baathist military operations officer Rashid Hussein Mohammed claimed during his genocide trial before the Iraqi High Tribunal Thursday that he was just defending his country against Iran during the Anfal campaign of the...
Lawyers for the three recently re-charged Guantanamo detainees renewed their condemnation of new military commission rules Thursday, telling the Associated Press that the tight deadlines established by the rules will prevent extended investigation...
US Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald played portions of White House briefing room videos Thursday as the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby continued. Fitzgerald said the tapes show Libby's eagerness to publicly...
Morocco will become the first Arab country to eliminate the death penalty , a state representative confirmed on Thursday. President of the Consultative Committee on Human Rights, Ben Dhikri, made the comments in the run-up to this...
Bangladesh Attorney General AJ Mohammad Ali stepped down from his post Wednesday in what is believed to be a response to demands for his resignation from a left-leaning 14-party coalition led by the Awami League (AL) [party...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Senegal to accelerate the process of bringing former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre to justice in a briefing paper released Thursday. Following a recommendation ...
Thousands of Peruvians took to the streets of Lima Friday, marching and waving pictures of lost loved ones in support of a proposal to legalize the death penalty for members of the Shining Path rebel group. In...
Mexico extradited drug kingpins Osiel Cardenas and Hector "El Guero" Palma and thirteen other major traffickers to the United States Friday as part of an effort by new Mexican president Felipe Calderon to follow through...
