Former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj pleaded not guilty Thursday before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to 37 counts of war crimes, including murder, persecution, and rape. Haradinaj,...

David Iglesias, former US Attorney for the District of New Mexico , told reporters Wednesday that he received two phone calls in October from federal lawmakers pressuring him to speed up indictments of...

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has rejected a plan by the US military to construct a $100 million courthouse at Guantanamo Bay . The complex proposed last October , would have...

Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday on charges of insulting Islam and causing sectarian strife in his blog . Nabil, a 22-year-old former law student, had...

Jailed Chinese newspaper ex-editor Yu Huafeng has had his eight-year sentence reduced by one year, according to Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao Daily News on Thursday. Huafeng and his colleague Li...

Speaking publicly for the first time, Muslim cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr said Thursday that he was tortured by Egyptian officials during his four-year detention in Egypt following an alleged 2003 kidnapping ...

The South Dakota Senate State Affairs committee rejected a bill in an 8-1 vote on Wednesday that would have criminalized most abortions in the state with exceptions for rape, incest and life-threatening conditions...

Rhode Island will recognize same-sex marriages of state employees performed in Massachusetts, according to Attorney General Patrick Lynch in a letter sent to the Commissioner of the Rhode Island Board...

A group of lawmakers from the US Senate and House of Representatives on Thursday introduced the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act , which would give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [official...

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contacted Italian intelligence about the possibility of performing extraordinary renditions in the days following the September 11 attacks, according to testimony during Italian judicial proceedings against US and...