A proposal by the Italian government to fingerprint the country’s Roma minority drew fierce criticism from the human rights community and Roma advocates on Friday. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni ...

The US Department of Justice announced Friday that it has settled a lawsuit brought by former US Army germ-warfare researcher Dr. Steven Hatfill , a development that may moot a landmark contempt case...

A South African magistrate Thursday set April 14, 2009 as the start of the corruption and fraud trial of suspended police commissioner Jackie Selebi . The South African National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) charged...

An HIV-positive soldier has challenged his upcoming dismissal from the Indian Army, the Supreme Court announced Friday. A Human Rights Law Network lawyer who is representing the soldier argued that the policy barring HIV-positive personnel...

The Canadian Federal Court ruled in two separate opinions Thursday that media comments by Quebec Justice John Gomery , who led the inquiry into the sponsorship scandal involving the Liberal Party and...

Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer promised in an open letter Thursday that he would push for Austria to hold national referenda in deciding whether to accept future modifications of the EU...

A German court Friday ruled that a sports utility vehicle manufactured in China bore an unacceptable resemblance to a model manufactured by German automaker BMW , ordering the SUV's importers to stop...

Unidentified assailants Thursday shot and killed a top Iraqi judge while he was traveling on a Baghdad highway. Kamel al-Shewaili was the president of the al-Rasafah Court of Appeal, one of two appeals courts in Baghdad, and presided over...

Hearings to confirm war crimes charges against two former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) militia leaders began at the International Criminal Court (ICC) Friday. Germain Katanga is accused of...

Banu Altunbasof, the Sudan head of international aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) , was ejected from the country's Darfur region Thursday, after authorities said that she blocked state investigations into alleged MSF transgressions. The...