A court in Croatia has ordered state officials to arrest parliamentarian Branimir Glavas on suspicion of war crimes commited against Serbs, including abduction, torture and murder in the eastern city...

The interim Thailand government installed following a military coup in September indicated Monday that it will not lift martial law until supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra reduce their efforts to destabilize the political...

The federal bench trial of a lawsuit challenging the 1998 Child Online Protection Act (COPA) began Monday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania . The American Civil Liberties...

Hussein Rasheed, one of five co-defendants facing charges in the Saddam Hussein genocide trial , on Thursday claimed Iraqi court guards beat him in the presence of US witnesses after Chief Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa threw...

Florida Judge Janet E. Ferris of the Leon County Circuit Court ordered that election supervisors be prohibited from affixing signs at polling places warning that votes for former US Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL)...

Britain's High Court on Thursday overturned a lower court ruling that London Mayor Ken Livingstone brought his office into disrepute by making controversial comments to a Jewish journalist. The court ruled that Livingstone's comments...

Lawmakers in the southern California city of Escondido approved an ordinance Wednesday that will prohibit landlords from renting their properties to illegal immigrants . The measure requires landlords to submit documentation to city...

The European Union on Monday formally signed an interim agreement giving the United States access to passenger name record data from European airlines conducting transatlantic flights. The US is expected to formally sign the...

Convicted civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart received a sentence of 28 months Monday. Stewart was convicted of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists for helping imprisoned Sheikh Omar...

A national of Bahrain, two Pakistani nationals and one Iranian were transferred from US custody at Guantanamo Bay into the hands of their home governments over the weekend, the US Defense Department confirmed Monday....