The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Friday sentenced Francois Karera to life imprisonment for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Karera, the former prefect of Kigali-Rural, was found guilty on three of...

US State Department officials Friday announced the resignation of State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard , following a long controversy over allegations that he obstructed inquiries that could harm the Bush administration. Last month, Krongard testified before the...

US Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) sent a letter to US Attorney General Michael Mukasey Friday, asking that the US Department of Justice launch an investigation into whether the CIA's destruction of videotaped recordings of...

Former interim Liberian President Gyude Bryant was arrested Friday after he failed to appear in court on charges of corruption this week. Bryant was charged in February with embezzling $1.3 million during his tenure from...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in six cases Friday afternoon, including the consolidated cases of Munaf v. Geren (06-1666) and Geren v. Omar (07-394) , where...

The Austrian Parliament passed legislation setting a complete ban on cluster munitions Thursday, and making a disarmament goal to destroy Austria's stockpile of approximately 10,000 devices over three years. Austria is the second...

A legal challenge has been filed to the eligibility of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto as a candidate in the upcoming January parliamentary election, an Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) official said...

Sudanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Samani Al-Wasilla on Thursday dismissed as politically motivated the latest report from the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) condemning Sudan for failing to arrest crimes against humanity...

The US Department of Homeland Security fails to provide adequate medical care to HIV-positive immigration detainees, according to a report issued Friday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . HRW said DHS policies do...

Japanese officials executed three death row inmates Friday and publicly disclosed their identities for the first time under a new policy that the Justice Ministry of Japan says is designed to increase understanding about the death penalty....