In the first case of a transfer from a UN tribunal to a Balkan country, Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Stankovic has been moved from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former...

US District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein has ordered the release of photographs and videotapes of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison , despite government arguments that the images could damage America's image in Iraq and Afghanistan....

The defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein has filed a motion petitioning the Iraqi High Criminal Court, previously called the Iraqi Special Tribunal , to delay the first of Hussein's several expected trials set to begin...

The US Senate has approved the nomination of Judge John Roberts to serve as the 17th Chief Justice of the United States by a vote of 78-22 . Roberts is expected to be sworn...

The United Nations Wednesday defended its decision approving Tunisia to host a UN summit on Internet access in the developing world, despite protests that the country is unfit due to repeated allegations of press and civil society abuses. The...

Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has said that he will veto a ban on human cloning approved by the state senate Wednesday by a margin of 21-12. The ban, previously approved by the Wisconsin Assembly...

The European Union will hold a meeting Sunday to discuss Austria's objections to beginning negotiations with Turkey on the country's proposed membership to the EU . All 25 of...

Leading Thursday's international brief, the current president of the UN Security Council , Philippine Ambassador Lauro Baja condemned the renewed violence in the Darfur region of Sudan , and warned that the...

A Tokyo court dismissed a lawsuit against Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Thursday that claimed his visits to a Shinto war shrine violated Japan's constitutional separation of religion and state. The court denied the plaintiffs'...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Wednesday strongly criticized a ruling from a US immigration judge earlier this week that Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles would not be handed over to Venezuela...