An Israeli military court on Tuesday charged Palestinian parliament speaker Aziz Dweik with membership and activity in a terrorist organization, over Dweik's complaints that the Israel Defense Forces court has no...

The Geneva Conventions of 1949 is now the first international treaty to gain universal international acceptance, according to Jean-Philippe Lavoyer, head of the legal division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) . Lavoyer said...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Tuesday finding that security forces in Guinea are routinely torturing people to coerce confessions in an increasingly unstable domestic climate. According to...

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday voiced disapproval of congressional efforts to address "net neutrality," arguing that if current regulations do not prevent broadband providers from accepting money...

A UN committee charged with creating worldwide standards to protect persons with disabilities has been swamped with 150 proposed amendments to the draft convention currently under discussion. The Eighth Session of the committee on the UN...

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has overturned a Missouri law banning sexually suggestive billboards on highways, saying that it was an unconstitutional infringement on commercial free speech. The court ruled...

A federal judge on Tuesday consented to a deferred-prosecution agreement between federal prosecutors and investment banker Frank Quattrone that allows Quattrone to avoid a third trial on obstruction of justice and witness tampering charges ...

An Iraqi official said Tuesday that an independent panel established to investigate the alleged March 12 rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl and the murder of her family at the hands of US soldiers in...

Eleven suspects charged in connection with the foiled terror plot to bomb airplanes crossing the Atlantic Ocean appeared in a UK court for the first time Tuesday. Eight defendants were remanded in...

Witness testimony began Tuesday in Saddam Hussein's trial on genocide and crimes against humanities charges in connection to the so-called "Anfal" operation that led to the killings of as many as 180,000...