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The Serbian Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the sentences of four paramilitary group members convicted of war crimes, according to reports from state-run television. The members of the Serbian Avengers were convicted last year of abducting, torturing...

Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Wednesday that Australia will not implement a compulsory national identity card when he rolled out plans for a voluntary and comprehensive health and welfare card that will replace the...

A presidential doctor in Indonesia Saturday declared former dictator General Suharto still unfit to stand trial, as he suffers from permanent brain damage and cannot have a logical conversation. Recently renewed efforts to have...

Lawyers for Army Sgt. Michael Smith, currently facing court-martial for allegedly torturing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison with unmuzzled dogs , have withdrawn a request for testimony from prison commander Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey...

Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge M. Brooke Murdock on Friday ruled against a 1973 state law that prohibits same-sex marriage , declaring that the statute subjects the plaintiff couples to a discriminatory classification...

Iraqis voted Thursday in Iraq's parliamentary elections to choose their first full-term parliament since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. There was large voter turnout reported in Sunni Arab areas that had been disinterested in balloting...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Wednesday sentenced Miroslav Bralo , a former Bosnian Croat soldier, to 20 years in jail. Bralo pleaded guilty to murder, rape and torture charges...

Lower courts in Uzbekistan Saturday sentenced 25 more men found guilty of involvement in the May 2005 Andijan uprising. Thirteen defendants were sentenced by the Tashkent provincial court and 12 by the Tashkent city court; all received...

Four Ethiopians arrested during violent protests of the country's May elections said Monday that they will begin a hunger strike to voice opposition to their detentions. Three of the detainees are Coalition for Unity and Democracy [party...

AP is reporting that "dirty bomb" suspect Jose Padilla has been indicted on criminal charges. Padilla has been in US custody for over three years on allegations that he was involved in an al Qaeda plot...