The Spanish government on Friday unveiled the anticipated "Law for the Recovery of the Historical Memory," legislation aimed at healing the wounds of Gen. Francisco Franco's authoritarian regime that ruled Spain from 1939...

Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika announced Friday that a criminal investigation has been opened into the June abduction and murder of four Russian embassy employees in Iraq. In a statement, the Prosecutor General's office said...

A Turkish court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit seeking compensation from novelist Orhan Pamuk , who was sued by six nationalists after he made allegedly unfavorable remarks to a Swiss magazine about Turkey's stance on...

A US Army soldier has said that the deaths of three Iraqi detainees in Samarra on May 9 were deliberate murders covered-up by his squad of the Third Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division , according...

Some leftist Italian lawmakers belonging to the Union Coalition of Italian prime minister Romano Prodi have expressed dissatisfaction with a controversial sentence-reduction bill that has been extended to include prisoners convicted of fraud and other...

Lawyers for the three men sentenced to death for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings Friday threatened to sue the Indonesia attorney general's office if their clients' executions, currently scheduled for mid-August , are carried out before...

A Belgian ethnic Lebanese couple is preparing a legal complaint against Israel for alleged war crimes during the ongoing Mideast conflict after Ali Abdul-Sater and his wife had to flee Lebanon via Syria with their three...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales pressed Republican lawmakers last week for a bill that would "shield" US soldiers from potential prosecution in US federal courts over violations of the 1996 War Crimes Act , according to a...

A judge in Ontario Thursday upheld a publication ban on the bail hearings for 17 men accused of a terror plot in Canada . The Associated Press, the New York Times, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,...

The UN Human Rights Committee slammed current US rights practices in a report released Friday, saying among other things that the US needs to close all alleged secret detention facilities and allow the International Committee...