The head executives of oil companies should be tried for crimes against humanity and nature for misleading the public about the impact of oil on global warming , according to a NASA climatologist who testified...

Tunisia is committing wide-spread human rights abuses under overly-broad anti-terrorism legislation , according to a Monday report by Amnesty International . Amnesty said that while the government claims to comply...

The US Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear seven cases , including Ministry of Defense and Support for the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran v. Elahi (07-615) [docket; cert....

Parhat v. Gates, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, June 23, 2008 [ruling that the US government improperly designated a Chinese Uighur Muslim as an enemy combatant and that he should be released or transferred from Guantanamo...

The president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) wrote in a letter to the UN Monday that the Serbian government had failed to cooperate with Tribunal...

The US Supreme Court handed down three decisions Monday, including Rothgery v. Gillespie County , in which the Court ruled 8-1 that a person accused of a felony has the...

The Bolivian province of Tarija approved a referendum Sunday calling for greater autonomy, becoming the fourth of nine provinces to approve increased freedom from Bolivia's socialist government. The voting results in...

A division of the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance revoked the license of Iranian daily newspaper Tehran Emrouz Saturday for printing articles that criticized the policies of Iranian President...

A US military court in Iraq Sunday convicted  Alaa "Alex" Mohammad Ali , an Iraqi-Canadian translator working in the country, in connection with the February stabbing death of a fellow military contractor. The case is the first...

A spokesman for Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council has said that the country's recently-enacted amnesty law has resulted in charges being dropped against over 75,000 people with some 20,000 others being ordered freed from detention, according to Reuters...