US State Department Legal Adviser John Bellinger III Tuesday called for the international community to "clarify" Geneva Convention rules pertaining to treatment of detained terror suspects. Speaking to reporters at an...
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The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in New Jersey v. Delaware , 134, Orig., to revisit a century-old water boundary dispute between the two states. In 2005,...
Authorities in Malaysia may rely on the country's controversial Internal Security Act (ISA) to halt protests, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi said Tuesday after Sunday demonstrations in Kuala Lumpur...
A court in the Netherlands ruled Tuesday that the families of approximately 8,000 Bosnian Muslims who were killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre can proceed with their class action lawsuit ...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Tuesday ruled that Belgian police violated Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights by searching the home and office of...
Iraq will join the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and become a member of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) , according to a Monday statement from the office of Iraqi President Jalal Talibani [BBC...
The Iranian Supreme Court has ordered a new probe in the case of murdered Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi on an appeal of a lower court order that the case be reopened, a...
The Supreme Court of Peru Monday sentenced 10 former cabinet officials from the government of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori for their involvement in the government's seizure of power from...
The North Korean government is stepping up the use of public executions, South Korean aid agency Good Friends said Monday. Good Friends said that the regime is targeting public officials accused of crimes such as...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Monday that the US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection did not violate the First and Fourth Amendments by subjecting individuals returning from an annual...
