Margarita Lopez Torres et al. v. New York State Board of Elections et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, August 27, 2006 [ruling that the process for selecting New York Supreme Court judges in political conventions...

Implementation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons safeguards agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency, August 31, 2006 . Read the full text...

The Israeli military court trying Palestinian parliament speaker Aziz Dweik and 18 Hamas cabinet ministers on charges of membership in a terrorist organization adjourned Thursday after granting defense lawyers two days...

Former Argentine President Raul Alfonsin has testified that amnesty laws preventing prosecution for human rights abuses during the so-called Dirty War of the late 1970s and early 80s helped to prevent rebellion during the transition...

The Bangladesh High Court on Thursday confirmed the death sentences that a trial court imposed in May on seven Islamic militants who murdered two judges in a bombing last year. The men include...

An Australian magistrate called a control order issued for terror suspect Joseph Terrence "Jihad Jack" Thomas "farcical" on Thursday since, among other things, the order prohibits Thomas from contacting Osama Bin Laden ....

Prosecutors in the war crimes case against Momcilo Krajisnik , a former Bosnian Serb speaker of parliament and the right hand man to former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic , have called for...

Ching Cheong , chief China correspondent for Singapore's Straits Times , was sentenced to five years in jail by a Chinese court on Thursday after being convicted on charges of selling state secrets and spying...

The Ugandan government said Thursday that it will ask the International Criminal Court (ICC) to withdraw its plans to arrest leaders of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) . If the indicted...

German politicians are debating a wave of new anti-terrorism proposals after terrorists attempted to blow up two trains in the country one month ago. Despite recently-passed legislation expanding state intelligence powers and allowing the prosecution of foreign...