The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Monday sentenced former Rwandan Armed Forces lieutenant Ildephonse Hategekimana to life imprisonment after convicting him on charges of genocide and crimes against...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday ordered a stay against any amendments to Pakistan's blasphemy laws pending further proceedings. The court ruled on a petition filed by a citizen,...

A Pakistani Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) issued warrants on Saturday for the arrest of two police officers accused of failing to protect assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto . Special Judge of ATC Rana Nisar Ahmed...

Guinea's President-elect Alpha Conde announced Saturday that he will create a truth and reconciliation commission to address decades of ethnic and political violence. Conde said on state television that reconciliation was essential to rebuild the volatile country....

Chinese officials allegedly orchestrated the hacking of Google , which caused the Internet company to briefly pull out of China earlier this year, according to a Saturday New York Times report citing...

The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on Friday heard conflicting testimony from top military leaders on the services' readiness to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) . Commandant of the...

US tobacco companies including Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds , along with an industry trade group, filed an appeal with the US Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn a $271.5 million class action...

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...

The Supreme Court of Guinea on Friday declared Alpha Conde the winner of November's presidential run-off election, validating the provisional results of the electoral commission and throwing out claims of electoral fraud. In light of escalating post-election violence, the...