Federal authorities arrested a Mississippi man Wednesday for the 1964 kidnapping and deaths of two black men in another reopened civil rights-era case . James Ford Seale, now 71 years old, was originally arrested in 1964 on...
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert urged Israeli President Moshe Katsav to step down Wednesday in the face of possible charges of rape and sexual harassment . Haaretz quoted Olmert as saying that "In these circumstances there...
The US House of Representatives Wednesday passed a resolution which would amend House rules to grant limited voting rights to federal lawmakers from five US nonstate territories. The resolution, introduced January 19, would extend certain Congressional...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will rule January 29 on whether war crimes charges will be confirmed against Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga [JURIST news archive;...
Turkish prosecutors have charged five people in connection with the murder of Hrant Dink , the Turkish-Armenian journalist who was shot and killed last week. The five are accused of belonging to an armed gang, and...
Ex-Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega , who has spent the last 17 years in US custody, including 15 years in federal prison on drug trafficking and racketeering charges, is to be released on September 9, 2007 ,...
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals heard oral arguments Wednesday on whether criminal conspiracy charges brought against former US Rep. Tom Delay were properly dismissed at trial. Charges of conspiracy to violate election law...
Ukraine political leaders have reached a compromise in a dispute over recently passed legislation that Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko threatened to challenge in court after claiming that it would illegally expand the cabinet's power at...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday in response to a press question about Italy's recent push for an international death penalty moratorium that he supports the international trend towards abolishing the death penalty. Ban...
Sri Lanka is "complicit or willfully blind" to the child conscription efforts of the rebel group Karuna , according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report published Wednesday that alleges the government has helped Karuna...
