Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Derbez plans to travel to Washington on December 29 to meet with US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick to discuss a proposed 800-mile wall to be built along the US-Mexico border...

Adel Yahya, a 23-year old student, appeared in a London court Friday after being charged under the Terrorism Act of 2000 with conspiracy to cause explosions in connection with his alleged role in planning a failed series of...

A Dutch court Friday sentenced a Dutch businessman to the maximum term of 15 years in prison for complicity in war crimes for selling chemicals used to produce mustard gas to Saddam Hussein's government. Frans van Anraat ,...

Uganda announced Thursday it would commence reparation negotiations with the Democratic Republic of Congo in late 2006, following Monday's International Court of Justice ruling that Uganda violated Congo's sovereignty...

The office of the UN Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) tasked with investigating the oil-for-food program will remain open an additional three months, until March 31, so prosecutors can assist "duly authorized law...

A US District Court judge Thursday dismissed a civil suit accusing Pope Benedict XVI of conspiring to conceal clergy sex abuse , citing the pontiff's immunity as head of the Vatican state . Judge...

Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants previously denied in court that they had been beaten by American guards, Iraqi investigative judge Raed Juhi said Thursday. Hussein alleged earlier this week in trial proceedings that he had...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered that possible amendments to a bill regulating non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the country be drafted within the next five days. The NGO proposal, approved by the Duma in November ,...

France has signaled opposition to a proposal from British Prime Minister and current EU president Tony Blair to allow cameras into the EU's main decision-making body, the Council of the European Union , during legislative debates....

Former ICTY deputy prosecutor Graham Blewitt said Monday that Australia has become a safe haven for war criminals avoiding prosecution . Despite confessing to immigration officials about committing acts of torture, murder and rape, more...