Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday said that countries have a duty to respect international humanitarian law "even in the midst of war." In the Pope's peace message , released in advance of the Catholic church's...

Swiss senator Dick Marty submitted a report to the Council of Europe (CoE) Tuesday, concluding that allegations that the CIA operated secret prisons in Europe and abducted and illegally transported terror suspects across Europe are...

Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said Tuesday that they will not sever proceedings in the Slobodan Milosevic trial . The court had been considering whether...

US District Judge James Robertson said Monday that he will consider allowing two Chinese Uighur Guantanamo Bay detainees to appear in federal court to challenge their ongoing confinement. The two men have been determined...

An Italian court has ordered the freezing of an Iranian government account at a Rome bank at the instance of US plaintiffs claiming compensation for terrorist acts supposedly supported by Iran. Steven Flatow, a New Jersey lawyer whose daughter...

The trial of Milan Martic , former leader of the erstwhile Serb republic in Croatia who has been charged with exterminating hundreds of Croat, Muslim and other non-Serb civilians between 1991 and 1995, began [ICTY press...

A federal grand jury on Monday indicted former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy Richard Scrushy and Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on fresh charges of corporate corruption, the latest in a series of allegations against the...

US District Court Judge Larry Burns ruled Monday that US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had authority to waive all laws and legal challenges to the building of the final 3.5...

Luis Moreno-Ocampo , prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, is expected to tell the UN Security Council Tuesday that the ICC's investigation in Darfur has revealed large numbers...

The UK High Court on Tuesday ruled that David Hicks , the Australian detained at Guantanamo Bay for over three years, should be registered as a British citizen. Hicks, whose mother was...