US authorities announced Thursday that compensation payments totaling $112,000 had been approved for victims of a May accident involving an American cargo truck in Kabul, Afghanistan , that set off an anti-American riot in which...
Cambodian genocide suspect Ek Choeun, also known as Ta Mok , died Thursday after having slipped into a coma in Phnom Penh earlier this week. He was 80. The former zone secretary and central committee...
The US Senate voted Thursday to extend the Voting Rights Act (VRA) Thursday by 25 years rather than allowing portions of it to expire. The bill reauthorizing the VRA, which over...
The US military revealed Wednesday that Saddam Hussein and three of his co-defendants are five days into a hunger strike in protest of trial court procedures and the killings of three of their defense lawyers, which...
Bosnian immigrant Marko Boskic was convicted Wednesday when a US federal jury found that he had failed to reveal his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre while trying to enter the US as a...
US Reps. Christopher Shays (R-CT) and Martin Meehan (D-MA) have filed a lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission (FEC) challenging new rules regarding campaign communications that can be narrow FEC standard...
Former US Army soldier Steven Green pleaded not guilty Thursday in US District Court to rape and murder charges in connection with the death of an Iraqi woman and three of her relatives...
Lawyers for Saddam Hussein turned to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Thursday, asking it to investigate alleged violations of law regarding his treatment and that of defense witnesses by US personnel. A copy of...
Five special rapporteurs making up the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Thursday called on the US to set a date for...
Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy on Thursday were convicted of federal bribery and fraud charges . Siegelman was convicted on...
