The UN Organization Stabilization Mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO) in conjunction with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report on Friday accusing soldiers in the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic...

Following Mexican Attorney General Arturo Chavez's resignation in April, the Attorney General's Office (PGR) charged 111 officials who served under him with corruption on Thursday. Sixty-seven were charged ...

Goran Hadzic was extradited to The Hague on Friday, where he now awaits trial for war crimes . Hadzic was the last fugitive of the original 161 sought for war crimes by the International...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday urged the government of Malaysia to release six leaders of the opposition Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) who are being held for organizing a rally...

Both the prosecution and the defense in the case of alleged Nazi Sandor Kepiro have announced they will be appealing a Hungarian court's decision to acquit . Kepiro was acquitted of participating in the 1942 Novi Sad massacre...

The UN Security Council on Wednesday made their first official statement implicating climate change as a serious threat to world peace and security. At the urging of Germany, which released a Concept Note to...

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa won a criminal libel claim on Thursday against the owners and a columnist of newspaper El Universo , resulting in...

A judge in the Court of Metropolitan Sessions, a criminal court in Bangladesh, on Wednesday indicted 430 people for their roles in a February 2009 mutiny . Bangladesh has conducted a series of military and...

Former hedge fund trader Danielle Chiesi was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to three criminal counts of conspiracy...

At least 400 inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison have been on a hunger strike since the end of June and are being joined by prisoners in at least 10 other California prisons. Inmates of Pelican Bay's...