Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, facing charges of crimes against humanity, was denied permission late last week to stand trial or serve his sentence in Sweden. Swedish Justice Ministry director Ann Marie Bolin Pennegaard told AFP that the request...

With a federal appeals court giving the green light earlier this month, the US is looking to quickly restart military tribunals for declared "enemy combatants" being held at Guantanamo . Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has...

Jury selection began today for the competency trial of Daryl Atkins, the plaintiff in the 2002 Supreme Court case Atkins v. Virginia that abolished the death penalty for the severely mentally retarded by...

Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized on Monday for the shooting last Friday of a Brazilian man mistaken for a terrorist , while relatives of the man are considering legal action . Brazilian citizen Jean...

Indiana National Guard soldier Corporal Dustin Berg has pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the fatal shooting of an Iraqi police officer. He is accused of killing Hussein Kamel Hadi Dawood Al-Dubeidi near Baghdad in December 2003...

Raed Jouhi, head of the Iraqi Special Tribunal , told a Saudi newspaper on Monday that the indictment against Saddam Hussein would be finished within two days, and that the trial would begin in about...

Sunni Arabs ended their boycott of the Iraqi constitution committee on Monday, rejoining the process after walking out last Wednesday to protest the July 19 assassinations of two Sunni committee members and...

With the US, Russia, and China announcing opposition to their plan , Japan and Germany have now approached smaller nations and possibly opened their pocketbooks in an attempt to win support for the so-called "G-4 Plan" for expansion...

A Saudi court on Monday upheld the six to nine year prison sentences for three campaigners who advocated democratic reforms in Saudi Arabia. Ali Ghothami, a lawyer representing Matruk al-Faleh, Abdullah al-Hamed and Ali Dumaini, said he was told...

Opposition lawmakers in the Philippines filed an impeachment complaint Monday against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo , accusing her of election fraud and other allegations. The impeachment does not come as a surprise after 50 opposition lawmakers...