A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled Monday that the minimum coverage provision of the recently enacted health care reform law is...
Threats against witnesses will not prevent the prosecution of six individuals responsible for Kenya's 2007 post-election violence , International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Friday. According to the statement, the prosecutor will...
Nigerian prosecutors announced Thursday that they are instituting bribery charges against former US vice president Dick Cheney in connection in with a contract that Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) [corporate...
Alleged Nazi death camp prison guard John Demjanjuk issued a statement on Tuesday accusing the German judges conducting his trial of bias after the they rejected a number of defense petitions. In total,...
The US Senate unanimously approved a bill Friday banning animal cruelty or "crush" videos. The House of Representatives approved the same ban on Monday, and the provision is now being forward...
Appellate judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled Friday that the trial chamber must review the continued detention of former Democratic Republic of Congo vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba [ICC materials; JURIST...
Amnesty International (AI) called Tuesday for Egyptian authorities to promptly and thoroughly investigate the death of 19-year-old Ahmed Shaaban who was allegedly tortured in police custody. Shaaban went missing from his hometown in Alexandria, Egypt,...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged Hezbollah not to resort to violence in an attempt to impede the investigation of the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) ...
The Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed separate federal lawsuits Tuesday challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) . In GLAD's lawsuit [text, PDF; press...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rejected a petition from Troy Anthony Davis on Friday for a certificate of appealability (COA), ruling that Davis must appeal his...
