International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Wednesday that the court will not use testimony from three Kenyan witnesses who claim they were bribed to provide false evidence against a high-ranking government official. Ocampo also...
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Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi filed a petition with Myanmar's High Court on Tuesday seeking to reinstate her opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD) . Myanmar's military government formally abolished...
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said in an interview Wednesday that he will not sign the execution order for former foreign minister Tariq Aziz . Aziz, who served in the...
Trials began Wednesday in Kyrgyzstan for former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev and his administration officials who have been charged with mass murder. The charges stem from an April 7 incident in which police...
The National Assembly of Hungary passed a bill on Tuesday limiting the jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court on state budget and taxation matters. The law, which passed 261-103, eliminates the court's ability to examine the...
Guinean presidential candidate and former prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo announced Monday that he would take to the Supreme Court to challenge his defeat in the West African nation's November 7 runoff election. The election,...
Amnesty International (AI) called Tuesday for Egyptian authorities to promptly and thoroughly investigate the death of 19-year-old Ahmed Shaaban who was allegedly tortured in police custody. Shaaban went missing from his hometown in Alexandria, Egypt,...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday denied a defense motion for mistrial in the trial of ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani ....
The UK government on Tuesday announced a settlement with 16 Guantanamo Bay detainees over allegations of torture. Details of the settlement agreement, which are legally bound to a confidentiality agreement, have not been released, although at...
The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled Friday that a New Hampshire law requiring schools to schedule voluntary recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional. The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF)...
