The New York Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was not liable for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center (WTC), finding governmental...
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The UN-backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Thursday ordered the trials of four alleged Khmer Rouge leaders be split into a series of smaller trials . The ECCC said that...
Former Libyan prime minister Al-Baghdadi Ali Al-Mahmoudi was arrested Wednesday in Tamaghza, Tunisia, near the border with Algeria, according to Tunisian authorities. Al-Mahmoudi was sentenced to six months in prison for illegal entering the country ....
The British government announced Thursday that it would pay reparations to the families of those killed or wounded in Northern Ireland's 1972 Bloody Sunday, the day on which members of the British Army's Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday dismissed two cases filed by former Iraqi detainees who claimed they had been tortured by civilian contractors at the Abu Ghraib prison near...
The state of Georgia executed Troy Anthony Davis Wednesday night after his eleventh-hour appeal for clemency was denied by the US Supreme Court. Davis was put to death by lethal injection, the...
The Liberian government must work to improve its generally poor prison conditions, according to an Amnesty International (AI) assessment released Wednesday. "Good Intentions Are Not Enough: The Struggle to Reform Liberia's Prisons" describes...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia Wednesday dismissed a challenge to election monitoring under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) . In a 151-page decision , Judge John Bates...
A Paris prosecutor on Tuesday, asked that the corruption charges against former French president Jacques Chirac be dropped. Additionally, the prosecutor has requested acquittal of the nine other individuals charged with...
The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Friday reinstated a $675,000 verdict against a Boston University student who illegally downloaded 30 songs and then shared them on the Web.The verdict was,...
