Sudan reissued a request to the UN Security Council Thursday to delay for one year war crimes charges against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for alleged genocide in Darfur. International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) researcher Rachael Reid responded Friday to media accusations that she received secret information from British officer Lt. Col. Owen McNally, arrested this week on suspicion of leaking secret information...

 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show that Bush administration immigration enforcement tactics were both overly-aggressive and ineffective, the Cardozo School...

A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced a Kurdish member of the Grand National Assembly , the Turkish parliament, to 18 months in prison on charges of spreading terrorist propaganda. Aysel Tugluk was convicted in connection with...

Nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Leon Panetta testified Thursday before the US Senate Intelligence Committee that he would perform his duties according to the law while upholding...

Nominee for Deputy Attorney General David Ogden Thursday defended his representation of parties opposing anti-pornography and pre-abortion parental notification laws during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee . Ogden, who is presently in...

US Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery Thursday in New York for pancreatic cancer . Ginsburg, 75, is expected to remain at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ...

The sister-in-law of embattled former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian on Thursday entered a guilty plea at the Taipei District Court on charges of money laundering related to a corruption scandal surrounding the former leader...

The US Senate amended the "Buy American" clause of the latest economic stimulus package Wednesday to clarify that the provision will be applied consistent with US obligations under international trade agreements. The revised language...

China reiterated its request Thursday that all Chinese Muslims, or Uighurs, held at Guantanamo Bay be returned to China after the prison's closing. Spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry [official website, in...