Kenyan opposition leaders said Wednesday that they would begin renewed demonstrations next week if the government does not make progress on writing a new constitution. Negotiations between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition candidate Raila Odinga [campaign...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday filed a complaint accusing former Refco Inc. CEO Phillip R. Bennett of committing civil fraud in connection with allegations that he reported false...

Russia Wednesday condemned a decision by the European Union to send a task force of police, prosecutors and judges into Kosovo to support the rule of law there after...

The Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday narrowly passed a bill legalizing euthanasia , in a move that could make Luxembourg the third European Union country to allow the controversial practice. Before...

Lawyers for a US Marine charged in connection with the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in November 2005 filed motions Tuesday requesting that the charges be dropped . Lt. Col. Jeffrey...

Pakistani lawyers will resume protests in Islamabad unless the superior court judges ousted in November 2007 by President Pervez Musharraf are reinstated, Pakistani Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan said Wednesday. Ahsan, originally detained...

The United States engages in widespread and systematic racial discrimination in violation of its obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) , human rights groups said Wednesday. US Human Rights Network...

Indictments for the leaders of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) still remain in effect despite a recent agreement between the LRA and the Ugandan government to establish a national war crimes court ,...

An Argentinean woman has brought charges against her adoptive parents for kidnapping her and falsifying her identity during Argentina's "Dirty War" . While several other cases have dealt with the abduction of children ...

Former Cambodian head of state Khieu Samphan is ending his cooperation with the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) , Khieu Samphan's lawyer told the Cambodia Daily in a Wednesday report. Khieu Samphan...