Bolivian President Evo Morales signed a bill Monday authorizing a recall election to be held on August 10, in which Morales and Bolivia's nine governors must win both more votes and a larger share of...

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) , one of the two main parties in Pakistan's coalition government, is leaving the coalition after prolonged talks in London failed to produce an agreement on the reinstatement of judges ousted...

An estimated 200-300 detainees held by Afghan authorities at the Afghan-controlled men's prison in Kandahar who went on hunger strike last week protesting the slow nature of the Afghanistan judicial system ended their action Monday after a...

Former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim called Monday for the prosecution of public officials involved in a judicial fixing scandal, one week after government officials ended their investigation into a video ...

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Gonzalez v. United States that allowing a magistrate judge to oversee jury selection does not deprive a criminal defendant of the right to a...

Persons suspected of involvement in the 2005 Andijan uprising that resulted in a massacre of unarmed civilians are still being mistreated according to a new Human Rights Watch report released Monday. Uzbek...

A court-martial was ordered Sunday for Alaa "Alex" Mohammad Ali, a dual Iraqi-Canadian citizen working as a translator in Iraq. Accused of having committed aggravated assault in February in connection with the stabbing death of another contractor, he is...

Talks between Pakistani party leaders meeting in London to discuss a parliamentary resolution to restore superior court judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf under his proclamation of emergency last November collapsed Sunday despite last-minute intervention by a US envoy...

Blackwater Worldwide is not likely to face criminal charges in connection with a September 16 shooting in Baghdad in which 14 Iraqi civilians were killed, AP reported Saturday, citing a half-dozen individuals closely associated with a US...

US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens suggested to a gathering of lawyers and judges Friday in Tennessee that the Kentucky Derby horse Eight Belles may have been euthanized more humanely than some prisoners. The Chattanooga Times...