Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa, who is overseeing the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein , on Monday agreed to a prosecution request to conclude the witness phase of the trial, and adjourned until Wednesday with just one prosecution...

A US Navy sailor pleaded guilty Monday at a court-martial hearing in Norfolk, Virginia, to espionage, desertion, failing to properly safeguard and store classified information, copying classified information, communicating classified information to a person...

Serb nationalist war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj , who has been on hunger strike for close to three weeks, has forbidden staff of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official...

A Kentucky judge on Wednesday ordered the state to hold public hearings on its lethal injection protocol, which the state changed two years ago after two death row inmates challenged it as a form of cruel and...

Saddam Hussein on Thursday rejected forensic evidence of mass graves presented by US experts in his genocide trial for the "Anfal" campaigns against ethnic Kurds in northern Iraq between 1987 and...

An Italian judge adjourned the tax fraud trial of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and British lawyer David Mills Monday after Berlusconi collapsed during a speech in...

The Iraqi Parliament Monday indefinitely barred journalists from sessions of parliament as part of efforts by Iraq's National Security Council to stop contradictory statements made by Iraqi politicians, according to Reuters. Speaker Mahmoud...

Chilean Judge Victor Montiglio indicted former dictator Augusto Pinochet Monday and placed him under house arrest in connection with the firing-squad deaths of two of former President Salvador Allende's bodyguards during the so-called Caravan...

The European Commission's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party reported Thursday that the Belgium-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) violated European privacy laws when it released information about cross-border wire transfers by European...

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state's use of a three-drug lethal injection does not violate the constitution because the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment "does not require a complete absence...