The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday sentenced former president of the municipality of Sokolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milan Tupajic , to two months...

Syria held a referendum Sunday to vote on a new constitution . The gesture towards the opposition by President Bashar al-Assad has widely been seen as an empty one, with much of the international...

Lawyers for the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group notified the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday that they plan to appeal the ruling earlier this week in the US District Court for the Northern...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a suit on Friday from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) , a consumer privacy group, asking the Federal Trade Commission...

A Milan court on Saturday dismissed corruption charges against former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi , finding that the statute of limitations had expired. Berlusconi was on trial for allegedly bribing his British tax lawyer,...

A pro-same-sex marriage group in Maine, EqualityMaine , has gathered enough signatures to place a same-sex marriage referendum on the November ballot. The question reads: "Do you favor a law allowing marriage licenses for same-sex...

A federal immigration judge in Florida decided Thursday that former El Salvador General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova can be deported for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed while in El Salvador. Judge James Grim found that...

Former Commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, Ratko Mladic , accused the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of being "biased" against Serbs and a "puppet" of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)...

Former Somali prime minister Mohamed Ali Samantar on Thursday accepted legal responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity before the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia . The civil suit was brought...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed concern Thursday over the investigation into post-election violence in the Ivory Coast in 2010 and 2011 and advocated six-month extension of the probe. HRW's primary concern rests...