An arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of genocide in Darfur could derail the peace process in Sudan according to a statement by Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Edmond Mulet on Wednesday....
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Vietnamese Justice Minister Ha Hung Cuong on Monday asked the country's National Assembly to consider reducing the number of crimes subject to the death penalty. Cuongs proposal, which would eliminate the death penalty for crimes like bribery...
Law enforcement officials from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Wednesday arrested Momir Pelemis and Slavko Peric on suspicion that they committed genocide by engaging in the capture and execution of 1700 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica [BBC backgrounder; JURIST...
Judge Nancy Atlas of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas sentenced former US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent Santiago Perez to one year and one day in prison for civil...
Michigan became the thirteenth US state to legalize marijuana for medicinal use Tuesday after voters passed Proposition 1 by 63 percent to 37 percent . The Michigan Medical Marijuana Act urged by the Michigan Coalition for...
Voters in Nevada Tuesday approved a ballot initiative that would restrict the state's ability to use eminent domain law to acquire private property. The initiative includes amendments to the Nevada State Constitution ...
Members from all parties of the German parliament passed a resolution Wednesday seeking to counter anti-Semitism in the country. The measure requires the government to develop a report on anti-Semitic...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Negusie v. Mukasey , the Court will consider whether the so-called "persecutor bar" in...
Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic refused to answer questions at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Wednesday about war crimes committed during the 1994 Yugoslav civil war...
Washington is in line to become the second US state to permit physician-assisted suicide after voters there Tuesday supported Initiative Measure 1000 , which would allow terminally ill, legally competent adults to obtain lethal prescriptions...
