Japan's Ministry of Justice announced Thursday that four death row inmates were executed, despite international pressure to end the practice. The executions are the country's first of 2009. Last year, the...
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The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on Thursday rejected an appeal by relatives of victims of the 1940 Katyn Massacre to reopen investigations into the killings. The court...
A judge for the National Court of Spain ordered an investigation Thursday of former Israeli Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer and six soldiers under his command for alleged crimes against humanity committed in a...
US President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 into law Thursday, extending the deadline for employees to sue their employers for unequal pay discrimination. The law's "clarification" of equal pay...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed deep concern Thursday over the deteriorating conditions for a quarter of a million Sri Lankans trapped in the conflict-ravaged north, calling for investigations...
Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman major general Abdel Karim Khalaf said Thursday that the country would not renew a contract allowing Blackwater Worldwide private security forces to operate within the country. Under the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) [CFR...
Former Bosnian Serb leader and war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic requested Thursday that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) shorten his indictment in order...
The trial of former Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga resumed Thursday after the first witness to testify withdrew his testimony Wednesday, causing the inaugural war crimes trial of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official...
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Wednesday that the US may continue to hold Yemeni detainee Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani at the Guantanamo Bay prison...
Japanese defense minister Yasukazu Hamada on Wednesday ordered the country's Maritime Self-Defense Force to prepare to travel to the waters surrounding Somalia to combat piracy in the region, despite concerns that combat could...
