The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague Wednesday dismissed two charges against former Bosnian commander Naser Oric . The court ruled that charges that Oric's soldiers...

A leading Sunni Muslim group in Iraq announced Wednesday that it would not participate in writing the new Iraqi constitution unless Sunnis were given a fair number of seats on the drafting committee. The parliamentary committee in charge [JURIST...

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has upheld the drug conviction of a passenger found with cocaine during an airport security check. Sergio Ramon Marquez was randomly selected from a line...

The British government Wednesday announced proposals to stop the manufacture, import, and sale of the majority of replica guns available in the UK. The plan is part of the new Violent Crime Reduction Bill [PDF...

Palestinian detainees at Israel's Megiddo prison began a hunger strike on Wednesday as Israeli officials denied reports that prison guards there had abused the Koran, echoing similar stories from Guantanamo Bay . Prisoners complained that...

The British government announced Wednesday that it has agreed to extradite Algerian Rachid Ramda , held on a French arrest warrant for the past eight years in connection with a Paris bomb attack in 1995 that took the...

EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner has called Tuesday's acquittal of 10 Libyan police officers charged with torturing six foreign medics - five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor - into confessions in an AIDS...

Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari Wednesday promised to continue fighting corruption in Iraq's new government. He said "administrative corruption" was one of many challenges Iraq must face, and that the government has "rolled up its sleeves and...

A British court Wednesday began a retrial of suspected Afghan warlord Faryadi Sarwar Zardad in what may be the first instance of a country prosecuting an alleged torturer for crimes committed abroad. Zardad is believed to have...

The US House Appropriations Committee Tuesday continued to press the FBI to adopt recommended reforms in hearings on the the FBI's new budget . On Monday, members of the 9/11 Commission also expressed concern [CBS...