White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday sent a memorandum to agency and department leaders requesting the review of pending regulations that were advanced late in the administration of former US President George...

Lawyers for the families of 213 Chinese children sickened or killed by melamine-contaminated milk petitioned the Supreme People's Court , China's highest court, to hear a class action lawsuit against 22 dairy companies involved...

US President Barack Obama has an obligation to bring charges against former President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for ordering illegal interrogation methods at Guantanamo...

US President Barack Obama on his first day in office Tuesday directed military prosecutors to pursue a 120-day continuance in military commission proceedings at Guantanamo Bay against five alleged 9/11 co-conspirators [DOD...

A spokesperson for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) announced Tuesday a large-scale media campaign to encourage more victims to come forward and participate in the trial of Khmer Rouge [BBC...

A court in the Rwandan capital of Kigali on Tuesday sentenced former justice minister Agnes Ntamabyariro to life in prison for inciting violence during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . The Court of First Instance of Nyarugenge found [BBC...

A fact finding team for human rights group Amnesty International (AI) on Monday accused Israel of war crimes , citing the use of white phosphorous in the midst of a dense civilian population. White...

Delivering his inaugural address Tuesday in Washington DC shortly after taking the oath of office as the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama insisted that his administration would pursue US national interests without...

Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr admitted throwing a hand grenade that killed a US soldier in Afghanistan, according to the pre-trial testimony Monday of an American intelligence official. The official, identified as Interrogator 11,...

In one of his final acts as President of the United States, George W. Bush on Monday commuted the sentences of two former border patrol agents convicted of the shooting of a Mexican drug smuggler. The...