The White House said Monday that President Bush intends to nominate Zalmay Khalilzad , current US ambassador to Iraq, to serve as the next US ambassador to the UN . Rumors of the personnel change first...
The 100-member Constitution Drafting Council in Thailand moved a key step closer to its goal of presenting a new constitution for the country within the next six months Monday by electing professor Noranit Setabutr to...
The war crimes trial of former Rwandan colonel and prefect of Rwanda's capital city Tharcisse Renzaho began Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) . Renzaho faces charges...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Iraqi government on Monday not to carry out the anticipated executions of two of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants, saying that if the executions are carried out, they will further...
A federal judge has ruled that a former terrorist suspect can sue a county in Detroit for alleged abuse while he was in jail. Karim Koubriti, a Moroccan national, was convicted in 2003 of document fraud and conspiracy to...
The chief judge presiding over the genocide trial against Saddam Hussein for the deaths of 180,000 Kurds during the so-called "Anfal" campaigns dropped all charges against the former dictator as the...
The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that a Canadian child can legally have three parents - two mothers and a father. The case before the court involved a lesbian couple, together since 1990, one...
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair , a staunch supporter of President Bush's Iraq policy, broke a week-long silence on the circumstances of the hanging of Saddam Hussein Sunday, saying through a spokesperson that the...
The Nepal Supreme Court decided Sunday to ask that the country's government revisit twelve separate portions of the temporary constitution on the country's judicial branch. The court's concern stems from the document's...
An Iraqi government spokesman said Sunday that the execution orders for two of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants, former chief judge of Iraq's Hussein-era Revolutionary Court Awad Hamed al-Bandar and former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti [GlobalSecurity profile;...