Pakistani officials said Tuesday that Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi will not hand over to India any Pakistani citizens arrested in connection with the Mumbai terror attacks , insisting instead on a joint investigation with Indian...

The Hebei Supreme Court in China on Monday rejected a class action suit filed against government-owned dairy farm Shijiazhuang Sanlu Group Co. by the families of children who died or were harmed as a result of tainted milk. Lawyers...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases. In Peake v. Sanders , the Court considered whether the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)...

The Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) on Sunday announced plans to collect signatures to initiate a referendum to make the province of Basra autonomous so that it can benefit from its oil wealth. The referendum was initiated by...

War crimes and other human rights violations are being committed in the ongoing Somali conflict , according to a report released Monday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . The report, titled "So Much to Fear:...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday unsealed indictments for five Blackwater USA guards involved in the September 2007 killings of 17 Iraqi civilians ....

Pakistani police on Sunday night raided a militant camp and arrested the alleged plotters of the Mumbai terror attacks . Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi , head of the Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) , was arrested, along with...

Five Guantanamo Bay detainees, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , the self proclaimed architect of the 9/11 attacks , indicated at a military commission pre-trial hearing on Monday that they wished to...

Human rights conditions are worsening in 12 Arab nations, according to a report published Friday by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) . The publication, which is the group's first...

A judge in the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong ruled on Monday that inmates have a constitutional right to vote while serving sentences. The court's decision stipulates that the justice department...