Serbian officials have criticized prison officials from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for failing to prevent the suicide of Milan Babic , former wartime leader of Croatia's...

The US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will vote in April on legislation to improve port security at American ports, according to committee chair Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) . Collins hopes...

A British judge on Thursday approved the takeover of a British shipping and ports company by the United Arab Emirates company Dubai Ports World , a move which could lead to the Arab company taking control...

A Ugandan military court-martial has reinstated firearms and terrorism charges against defeated presidential candidate Kizza Besigye after the military trial was postponed during elections . Besigye's lawyers said Thursday that they...

Military commission hearings for two Guantanamo Bay detainees scheduled to begin Wednesday have been delayed, but a third detainee will face a pre-trial hearing as scheduled. Ali Hamza al...

The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma , Wednesday gave critical second-reading approval to an expansive anti-terror bill which would grant a broad range of new counter-terrorism powers to law enforcement and the military. The...

A federal judge has granted a request by defense attorneys that sentencing for Ahmed Omar Abu Ali , convicted in November of last year for joining al Qaeda and conspiring to assassinate President...

Saddam Hussein defense lawyer and former head of the Jordanian Lawyers Association Saleh al-Armouti said Friday that Hussein has claimed that the United States had offered him life in exile "like Napoleon" if he would use...

Hong Kong High Court Justice Michael Hartmann has ruled that an executive order on covert surveillance operations made last year by Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen is unconstitutional. Instead of immediately repealing it,...

Conrad Black , former chairman of media company Hollinger International , told a US federal judge in Chicago Friday that he would prefer to have a trial soon. Black appeared at a court hearing held to...