Serbian authorities Wednesday transferred Bosnian Serb leader and former fugitive Radovan Karadzic to the custody of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to face trial on war...

A DC federal grand jury Tuesday indicted US Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) on seven counts of making false statements relating to an alleged corruption scheme and for...

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has upheld seven out of 12 charges against two US border agents who were found guilty of unlawfully shooting an illegal immigrant...

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim released a medical report Tuesday that he said refuted sodomy allegations made against him by a former aide. According to the report, the...

A lawyer for three Indonesian men sentenced to death for their role in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people said Monday that he would file a constitutional challenge to their method of execution. Mukhlas,...

Judges at London's High Court Monday rejected an appeal against the extradition of three Tunisian men arrested on terrorism charges who argued that their removal to Italy could ultimately lead to their torture. The three were arrested late last...

The 192-member UN General Assembly Monday unanimously voted to approve South African judge Navanethem Pillay as the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, replacing departing commissioner Louise Arbour . UN Secretary General Ban...

The human rights situation in China has continued to deteriorate as the start of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games draws closer, according to a report released Tuesday by Amnesty International (AI) . The report,...

The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Monday that it has transferred three more Guantanamo detainees , one each to Afghanistan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The unnamed individuals are among more than 65 Guantanamo...

US President George W. Bush Monday approved the death sentence of US Army private Ronald A. Gray, marking the first time a president has approved a military execution since 1957. Gray was first tried by a civilian court for...