Australian officials said Monday that Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks could face reduced charges when he goes to trial before new US military commissions, the procedural rules for which were promulgated last week....
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The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of the Bangladesh Election Commission (EC) resigned Monday as a controversial election threatens to undermine the political stability of the country. CEC MA Aziz voluntarily took a three-month leave of absence in...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Monday urged Rwandan judges and police to investigate and stop attacks on individuals administering or testifying in local tribunals known as Gacaca courts to bring those allegedly...
Czech Republic Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said Sunday that leaders in Prague are not on board with ratifying the European constitution in its current form, and do not plan to take part...
Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza said Sunday that his country's extradition of 15 alleged drug kingpins and major drug traffickers to the US was a "unilateral and sovereign" decision by the...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should be brought to trial for inciting genocide against Christians and Jews during remarks he made last month, former Israeli prime minister and current opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu said...
Growing criticism of the circumstances behind the Guantanamo detention of German-born Turk Murat Kurnaz has focused on German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier following German media reports over the weekend. Kurnaz, arrested by...
One of the most complex criminal trials in Canadian legal history gets under way Monday in New Westminster, British Columbia, as Robert William Pickton stands accused of murdering 26 women , most of them prostitutes...
The United Nations will work with Nepali leaders to bring human rights violators to justice, according to a statement from UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour . Arbour is on a six-day visit to the...
A former Nigeria oil minister, Dan Etete, will stand trial in France to face money laundering charges, according to a report Sunday by the Journal du Dimanche newspaper. The money laundering is in connection...
