A federal judge in the US District Court for the District of Montana on Friday ruled that the state's medical marijuana law does not protect providers of the drug from federal prosecution. Judge...

The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) , a Serbian human rights group, alleged on Tuesday that Serbian General Ljubisa Dikovic committed war crimes in 1998 and 1999 during...

Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) announced Tuesday that Eygpt's state of emergency that has been in effect for nearly 30 years would be lifted later...

The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a trial court must review a lawsuit challenging a Minnesota law prohibiting gay marriage . The plaintiffs are three same-sex couples who were married in...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday condemned Iraq's execution of 34 individuals, including two women, last week. All 34 executions occurred on a single day for crimes described as terrorism-related offenses...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Monday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by US citizen and convicted terrorist Jose Padilla , who alleged that he had been...

The Canadian government on Monday deported Rwandan war crimes suspect Leon Mugesera, after a Quebec Superior Court judge ruled that the court did not have jurisdiction to rule on immigration cases. Mugesera, who has been fighting deportation...

US Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich pleaded guilty Monday to the charge of negligent dereliction of duty, ending the final court-martial resulting from a five-year investigation into the 2005 deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians [BBC...

The second trial of Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon began on Tuesday before the Spanish Supreme Court . Garzon has been charged with abusing power by opening an investigation into...

The French Senate on Monday passed a bill that outlaws denial of genocide crimes , including the World War I-era killings of more than one million Armenians by Turkish soldiers. The Senate voted...