Jury selection begins Monday in the first trial of thousands of lawsuits brought by Louisiana homeowners affected by the Hurricane Katrina disaster against their insurance companies. Homeowners Lawrence and Elizabeth Tomlinson are suing Allstate ...

Prosecutors in the ongoing genocide trial of Saddam-era officials before the Iraqi High Tribunal introduced a videotape Sunday of executions and destruction of Kurdish homes during the "Anfal" campaigns [HRW backgrounder;...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) Sunday to spare the life of former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan citing a lack of...

A referendum on Portugal's strict abortion laws indicated Sunday that a majority of voters support loosening the current law , but turnout was likely too low to give the decision legal force. Exit polls from...

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso urged swift resolution on the issue of the European constitution at a press conference with Polish President Lech Kaczynski Saturday....

A US Bureau of Prisons evaluation has concluded that alleged terrorist Jose Padilla is competent to stand trial. Previous evaluations of Padilla by a psychiatrist and clinical psychologist suggested that...

The Canadian government of Conservative Party Prime Minister Stephen Harper will likely allow two provisions of its Anti-Terrorism Act to expire at the end of next week now that the opposition Liberal Party ...

US ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Douglas McElhaney has told the Nezavisne Novine daily that the US wants the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to stay open beyond the end of its scheduled trials...

A US Justice Department spokesman said late Friday that the federal appeals court decision giving suspected Iraq terrorist Shawqi Omar the right to argue his case before a US court will "inappropriately...

Russian President Vladimir Putin Saturday criticized what he called the "dangerous" use of force by the United States in the face of international law in a hard-hitting speech at...