Former US Guantanamo Bay chief military prosecutor Col. Morris Davis said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published Saturday that politics is interfering with Guantanamo prosecutions . Davis said that recently-approved rules governing...

Canada's minority Conservative Party government introduced legislation Friday that would require Muslim women wearing a veil to show their faces before voting. Bill C-6 on "visual identification of voters" is said to be designed to combat...

The Supreme Court of Peru has convicted former Peruvian economy minister Jorge Baca Campodonico of embezzlement, according to the government's official gazette Saturday. Campodonico diverted $59.4 million from government funds to failing private bank Banco...

US Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey told the Senate Judiciary Committee in a letter released Friday that the Constitution does not preclude the president from wiretapping terrorism suspects without a warrant. His comments...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has signed new money laundering regulations meant to hinder the flow of funds to Hamas and to show foreign banks doing business with Palestinian counterparts that they are not violating US...

UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions Philip Alston said Friday he is planning an official visit to the US to investigate allegations of unlawful killings by US military and non-military actors in Iraq and...

Iraqi prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon defended the death sentence for convicted Saddam Hussein-era defense minister Sultan Hashim al-Tai Friday, saying that al-Tai personally oversaw the deaths of 180,000 people during brutal military campaigns against Iraq's...

The US Army Board for Correction of Military Records ruled Friday that a group of African-American soldiers court-martialed in 1944 for rioting and attacking Italian POWs held at at Seattle's Fort Lawton should have their convictions overturned....

Myanmar's military junta has announced the release of 87 people held in the wake of the government's crackdown against protesters and political dissidents which began in August. The released prisoners include more than 50 members of the National League...

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte said Friday that Serbia must do more to apprehend fugitive war crimes suspects before she can give a positive report on the country's work...