UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan , in a report to the UN Security Council, has accused Sudanese rebels of taking part in kidnappings, extortions and thefts, causing the already unstable Darfur region to become even more...

Iraq's President Jalal Talabani on Wednesday authorized death sentences for three Iraqi men convicted of murder, paving the way for the first legal executions in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Talabani, who has opposed...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has said that North Korea would consider returning to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty if the US stops threatening the country, a Russian envoy who recently met with Kim said...

An Italian court Wednesday ordered that Ethiopian-born Hamdi Issac, a suspect in the failed July 21 London transport attacks , be extradited to Britain within 35 days. The three judge panel allowed the 35-day delay so...

A lawyer in Luxembourg filed suit Tuesday challenging the country's July 10th referendum approving the European Constitution . Lawyer Roy Reding claims the government violated Luxembourg's constitution ...

Pickett et al. v. Tyson, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, August 16, 2005 [ruling upholding a federal district court decision throwing out a jury verdict that said that a Tyson Foods subsidiary, Tyson Fresh Meats, manipulated...

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Tuesday upheld a ruling by a federal district court in Alabama, throwing out a jury verdict that said that a Tyson Foods subsidiary, Tyson Fresh Meats,...

Eighteen people convicted in the 2002 bombings in Bali that killed 202 people, have had their sentences cut by several months to celebrate Indonesia's Independence Day, prison wardens announced Wednesday. It is an Indonesian custom to...

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is seeking to revoke the bail of convicted murderer and former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen because of pre-trial death threats made by his brother. J.D. Killen...

Following gang riots that left at least 33 prison inmates dead Monday, Guatemalan Interior Minister Carlos Vielmann asked the Guatemalan Congress Tuesday for permission to build new maximum security prisons as part of a new...