Sweden's international prosecutor Magnus Elving unveiled war crimes charges Tuesday against Swedish citizen and former Bosnian prison guard Ahmet Makitan. Makitan is accused of violating the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War ...

A panel of Dutch judges on Tuesday rejected claims of judicial bias, ordering the trial of politician Geert Wilders on charges of making anti-Islamic statements to resume. The panel considered...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in NASA v. Nelson on informational privacy. The issue is whether the government violates a federal contract...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday sentenced Pakistani-born US citizen Faisal Shahzad to life in prison for attempting to detonate a car...

A dispute among the Pakistani judiciary worsened on Monday as more than 1,300 civil judges resigned in protest over the treatment of judges by lawyers and to express solidarity with Lahore District and Sessions Judge Zawar A Sheikh. The...

The Bangkok Criminal Court on Tuesday dismissed money laundering and fraud charges against suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout , paving the way for his extradition to the US. The court found that there was...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday announced the filing of a civil antitrust lawsuit against credit card companies Visa, MasterCard and American Express . The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court...

The Paris Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced "rogue trader" Jerome Kerviel to three years in prison and an additional two years suspended for fraudulent covert trading...

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in Wilner v. NSA , in which lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees were seeking disclosure of whether...

The Amsterdam District Court adjourned the trial of right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders Monday after a lawyer for Wilders accused a judge of bias. After Wilders, on trial for making...