The Criminal Chamber of the Spanish Supreme Court unanimously confirmed on Tuesday the lower court order that National Court judge Baltasar Garzon abused his power and must face trial. Garzon...

A Kenyan court on Monday convicted seven Somali pirates on charges related to the attack on a German naval supply ship in March 2009, sentencing them to five years in prison. According to prosecutors, the men...

A federal judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Friday that the US government can indefinitely hold an Afghan detainee at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The...

The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka on Tuesday approved a proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate presidential term limits, holding that the amendment is not inconsistent with the Sri Lankan Constitution . The proposed amendment, which...

A Somalia native pleaded not guilty Tuesday in an Oslo District Court at Norway's first trial under its 2002 terror financing law. The unidentified Somali-born Norwegian citizen has been accused [AP...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday his government would proceed to draft a law that would make it easier to deport illegal immigrants and strip immigrants accused of violent crimes of...

Prosecutors in Bahrain on Saturday charged 23 Shiite Muslims with terrorism-related offenses and conspiring to overthrow the government, claiming that they were acting under the direction of an unnamed foreign government. The suspects, who have been under...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision Friday allowing two people to file habeas corpus petitions against removal orders from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) despite provisions...

An independent journalist is expected to go on trial for allegedly libeling Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abult Gheit according to Sunday press reports. Gheit alleges that Hamdi Qandeel insulted him in an article he wrote...

An appeals court in Argentina Friday reopened an investigation into crimes against humanity committed in Spain during the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War and the subsequent regime of General Francisco Franco . The Spanish government adopted an amnesty law...