The UN Security Council on Thursday voted to extend the mandate of the UN International Independent Investigation Commission probing the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri for an...

A Chinese court Thursday sentenced Yang Xiaoging, a reporter for the state-run China Industrial Economy News , to one year in prison after finding him guilty of extortion. Xiaoging wrote articles about official corruption, accusing...

A federal grand jury has handed up another indictment against South Korean lobbyist Tongsun Park , charging him Wednesday with lying to the FBI about his role in the adoption of the 1995 UN Security Council Resolution...

Yemeni officials on Thursday called for a second investigation into last week's detainee suicides by one Yemeni and two Saudi Arabians held at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay , saying the deaths exemplify...

Sudanese Justice Minister Mohammed al-Mardi insisted Thursday that the International Criminal Court does not have jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed in the volatile Darfur region and said that Sudanese officials would not submit...

Responding to public outrage in the UK over the possibility of parole within six years for a sex offender convicted earlier this week, Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer said on Wednesday's...

The US Supreme Court handed down four decisions Thursday, including Hudson v. Michigan where the Court held 5-4 that evidence collected under a search warrant is admissible even...

Mexican lawmakers began working this week to revive a bill that will decriminalize personal drug possession – or possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin. Lawmakers hope to override a potential veto by Mexican President Vicente Fox...

The Russian Duma , the lower house of parliament, on Wednesday voted 359-53 to pass a bill that will shorten the military conscription requirement from two years to one, beginning in January 2008. The bill is expected to...

A court in Japan has ruled that journalists have a right not to disclose the identities of their sources. The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday reversed a district court order that a newspaper reporter...