The lawyer for imprisoned US journalist Roxana Saberi on Tuesday appealed her recent conviction for espionage . A spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary reportedly said that he hoped her eight-year sentence would be...

US Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Tuesday that the Obama administration doesn't have a plan to deal with detainees at Guantanamo Bay once the facility closes. McConnell, speaking before the...

Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his former business partner Platon Lebedev pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of money laundering and embezzlement. Khodorkovsky made two statements to the court, one...

The US Supreme Court issued three opinions Tuesday. The Court ruled in Ministry of Defense and Support for the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran v. Elahi [Cornell LII backgrounder;...

Turkey's Eleventh Criminal Court in Ankara on Monday granted permission for a case involving the 2006 killing of a senior judge by lawyer Alparslan Aslan to be merged with a larger case against alleged Ergenekon  coup leaders. Ergenekon is accused of planning to...

Delegates to the UN Durban Review Conference on Racism walked out of a speech on Monday by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after he described Israel as "totally racist." Additionally, a...

US President Barack Obama on Monday defended  his recent decision to release memos describing interrogation methods employed by CIA  officials in questioning Guantanamo Bay detainees. He made the remarks to CIA officials who had expressed...

A Rwandan court rejected a lawsuit brought by captured Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rebel leader Laurent Nkunda seeking his release from Rwandan custody. Nkunda was apprehended by Rwandan authorities in January near the DRC border after...

Judge Denny Chin of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a restraining order Monday that protects from bankruptcy more than $100 million in assets of financier Bernard Madoff ....

The Seoul Central District Court on Monday acquitted a South Korean blogger charged with spreading misleading financial information online. Park Dae-sung had been charged with spreading false and misleading financial information for writing that the South Korean government...