The US Justice Department has sent so-called target letters to six Blackwater USA guards involved in the September 16 killings of 17 Iraqi civilians , the Washington Post reported Sunday....

The US-led Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-Iraq) announced Saturday that the first hearing of a US soldier charged in connection with the death of an Iraqi detainee will begin on September 5 . Staff Sgt. Hal M. Warner,...

Officials of Myanmar opposition group the National League for Democracy (NLD) said Sunday that the government has sentenced five of its members to prison for participating in a march commemorating the mass student protests against the junta...

Belarusian officials released opposition politician Alexander Kozulin from prison Saturday after two years' detention for staging political protests. Kozulin was sentenced to more than five years in prison in July 2006 for leading unauthorized protests...

The possibility that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will face impeachment increased Saturday as a spokesman for the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) , the main ruling party in the country, said it will not...

Former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre and eleven other rebel commanders were sentenced to death Friday in a Chadian court for crimes against the state after a mass trial in which dozens were tried. Habre...

Chinese media reported Friday that the Shanghai Municipal First Intermediate People's Court sentenced a former city official to death after being convicted of multiple corruption charges on Thursday, though the sentence will not be imposed for...

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic presented a formal request to the UN General Assembly Friday seeking a determination by the International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo's February declaration...

The Supreme Court of the Philippines on Friday heard arguments in a case challenging a proposed peace agreement between the country's government and rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front . The proposal would...

Phillip Lemons, et al. v. Bill Bradbury, Sec. of the State of Oregon, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, August 14, 2008 [ruling that Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury did not violate the constitutional rights...