Former Yugoslav army general Momcilo Perisic arrived in The Hague Monday as anticipated to surrender to officials from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Perisic has been charged with eight counts of crimes against humanity...

AP is reporting that President Bush has picked Under Secretary of State John Bolton to be US ambassador to the United Nations , according to a government official "knowledgeable about the...

Former Rwandan mayor Juvenal Kajelijeli Monday began his courtroom appeal of a life sentence imposed on himm in 2003 by the UN-created International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda . Kajelijeli, onetime mayor...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Lebanese President Emile Lahoud agreed at a summit Monday that Syria would pull its troops back from their current positions in Lebanon and move to the Bekaa Valley...

The US Supreme Court ruled in three cases Monday. In Shepard v. US , the court in a 5-3 opinion by Justice Souter held that in making sentencing determinations, judges are confined to information...

French newspaper Le Monde reported Monday that the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague is about to indict Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and issue...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called an emergency, closed-door session of the UN Security Council for Monday to discuss the deteriorating situation in the Darfur region of Sudan, as well as the proposed deployment of over 10,000...

Members of Kuwait's parliament Monday agreed to speed up consideration of a government-proposed law that would give Kuwaiti women the right to vote. No specific date for debate was set, however....

Tsunami Victims Group v. Accor North America et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, March 4, 2005 [filed by 60 European survivors and relatives of victims of the December 26 South Asia tsunami against...

Iraqi deputy prime minister Barham Salih said Sunday that the transitional national assembly chosen in the January 30 elections and responsible for drafting a permanent constituton for Iraq replacing the current Transitional Administrative Law...