Former Bosnia Serb paramilitary leader Gojko Jankovic pleaded not guilty to war crimes Thursday before the new War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina . Jankovic is the second Bosnian war crimes...

The Italian lawyer for former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz has requested that Aziz be moved to Bakulev Heart Surgery Center in Moscow for heart treatment. Aziz is currently being held by US forces in Baghdad...

A witness at the court-martial of Abu Ghraib dog handler Sgt. Michael J. Smith told a military jury Tuesday that he saw Smith using his black Belgian shepherd to terrify two teenage detainees in...

UN officials from the Office of Administration of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal are urging the timely start of the genocide trial of aging Khmer Rouge leaders, noting the weekend death of Slobodan Milosevic in the fifth...

Results of a new study released by the Dublin Roman Catholic archdiocese in Ireland show that while 102 Dublin priests are suspected of abusing children since 1940 and 32 of them are facing lawsuits, only eight...

Majority Republicans on the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence agreed Tuesday to establish a new seven-member subcommittee to oversee surveillance methods utilized by President George W. Bush's domestic spying program , but...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan questioned the legality of the "arbitrary detention" of thousands of Iraqis by Coalition and Iraqi forces in his latest periodic report to the UN Security Council on the situation in Iraq released...

UK Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells has warned that operations at the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba threaten democracy and has urged the closing of the facility in order to restore...

Russian civil aviation pilots have drafted an address to President Vladimir Putin expressing concern over a provision in a new anti-terrorism bill allowing for the shooting-down of hijacked planes. The bill was passed last month by...

Russia's Prosecutor General has requested that the British government extradite business tycoon Boris Berezovsky on charges of plotting a coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin . In an interview...