Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei said Monday in his annual report to UN member states that he wants North Korea to return to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty [text, PDF; IAEA...

The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled on Monday that current state laws regarding sex offenders are unconstitutional as applied to homeless people. The ruling was in response to the appeal of William James Santos, a...

UK Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw Monday called for a 'rebalancing of criminal justice priorities' amidst outrage expressed at newly released Ministry of Justice figures showing...

A pending California ballot initiative to eliminate same-sex marriage in the state has generated more than $60 million in contributions to committees representing both sides as of Saturday, a figure believed to be a US...

Serbian war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic and Albanian state prosecutor Ina Rama met Monday to discuss allegations of organ trafficking in Kosovo. Former Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Carla Del Ponte...

Alleged al Qaeda propagandist Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul went on trial Monday before a military commission at the Guantanamo Bay prison. Al Bahlul is only the second detainee to go on trial...

Santos v. The State, Supreme Court of Georgia, October 27, 2008 . Read...

A Myanmar court sentenced six leading opposition activists to prison terms Friday in connection with their involvement in pro-democracy demonstrations during the abortive 2007 Saffron Revolution . All six are members of the National League for Democracy (NLD)...

The Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) found the government of Niger liable Monday for failing to aid a young woman who was held in slavery for ten years. The...

A new regulation by the Israeli Ministry of the Interior would prevent illegal immigrants who had left the country returning again, the newspaper Ha'aretz reported Sunday. The regulation covering persons from a wide range of...