Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday began hearing an appeal by Mukhtar Mai against the acqittal of five men who allegedly brutalized her in a gang-rape that attracted national and international attention and condemnation. Mai was...
The World Tribunal on Iraq on Friday accused the US of committing war crimes during the invasion of Iraq and claimed the United States has caused more deaths in Iraq than former dictator Saddam Hussein. The tribunal,...
Chief of Staff to UN-Secretary General Kofi Annan Mark Malloch Brown told AP Friday that the UN will ask France to pursue a former UN employee accused in the murders of 32 Rwandans during the genocide of...
In a White House press conference Friday with visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari , President Bush reiterated his goal of sticking to the scheduled timetable for a permannet Iraqi constitution which contemplates completion of a a...
An Italian official speaking anonymously said Friday that a judge in Milan has ordered the arrest of 13 CIA agents for their alleged role in aiding the deportation of an imam to Egypt . Italian newspapers claim...
A member of the UN Committee against Torture , speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP Friday that the US has acknowledged to the United Nations for the first time that instances of prisoner torture have occured in...
Lawyers involved in the huge litigation against Merck over its drug Vioxx said Thursday that federal lawsuits against the drug company could begin in late autumn 2005. The first state...
A senior Bosnian Serb police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Friday that seven Bosnian Serbs have been arrested in the past two days for involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . The attorney...
Interim Dean of Florida A&M University Law School James Douglas said Thursday that about 10 professors at the law school who have not been paid for the first summer session have threatened to stop teaching if they...
The Wisconsin Assembly voted Thursday to approve one of the country's broadest bans on human cloning in the state where embyonic stem cell research was pioneered and...
