Serbia is not doing enough to cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , ICTY Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz said Thursday. Brammertz said he was especially concerned with Serbia's inability to find and capture...

South Korean prosecutors on Thursday charged Samsung Chairman and CEO Kun-Hee Lee with breach of trust and tax evasion, but decided not to charge him based on accusations that Samsung maintained a $200 million slush...

The Nagoya District Court in Japan ruled Thursday that Japan's air force mission to Iraq breaches the Japanese constitution , but did not order the government to redeploy the 210 air force personnel in Kuwait aiding the US-led Multi-National...

US military interrogators allegedly abused Afghan detainees in 2003 at the Gardez Detention Facility in southeastern Afghanistan, according to Pentagon documents released Wednesday under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the...

The US government will begin collecting DNA samples from every person arrested under federal laws, a Department of Justice spokesman said Wednesday. Federal agencies are authorized to collect DNA samples under a 2006 amendment to...

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Russia are chafing under increasingly strict regulations implemented under legislation signed into law in April 2006 by Russian President Vladimir Putin , rights groups told AP Wednesday in the wake of a...

Lawyers for former Italian Intelligence and Security Service (SISMI) chief Nicolo Pollari said Wednesday that they have included Italian Prime Minister-elect Silvio Berlusconi as a requested witness to testify in support of Pollari's assertion that...

Several US states announced Wednesday that they would resume executions by lethal injection after the Supreme Court's decision upholding Kentucky's lethal injection protocol earlier in the day. Virginia lifted its death penalty moratorium and Oklahoma's...

Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein was released from custody Wednesday by US military forces in Iraq. Maj. Gen. Douglas M. Stone, deputy commanding general for detainee operations for the Multi National Force–Iraq ,...

The Federal Court of Australia Wednesday ruled against former Guantanamo detainee Mamdouh Habib in an ongoing claim for compensation against the Australian government, which he accused of being complicit in torture he...