Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday submitted a request to the court to begin an investigation into the Ivory Coast political conflict during which thousands of...
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The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday unanimously ruled to uphold a $413 million judgment against Syria for assisting in the the murders of two US contractors. In 2004,...
The Kyrgyzstan Inquiry Commission on Tuesday concluded that the Kyrgyzstan military handed out weapons to Kyrgyz mobs who attacked minority Uzbeks last summer. The international, independent inquiry into the June 2010 ethnic violence [Guardian backgrounder;...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday insisted on "a full disclosure of the accurate facts" surrounding the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden ....
Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Wednesday filed a corruption lawsuit in a US federal court against a natural gas trading company. In the suit against Swiss-based RosUkrEnergo , Tymoshenko...
A Somali man pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to piracy, kidnapping and weapons charges related to a yacht hijacking in February that left four Americans dead....
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday urged the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to reverse its decision to dissolve the board of directors of a prominent civil rights group. UAE social affairs minister,...
A Tunisian court on Tuesday dropped charges against a police officer who incited protests in several Arab countries when she allegedly slapped a local fruit vendor. Police woman Fedia Hamdi was accused of slapping Mohamed Bouazizi in...
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Thursday discharged six justices of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan for corruption. The Kazakh Prosecutor-General's Office has opened criminal cases [RFE/RL...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday denounced a deadly Iraqi military raid on a camp housing Iranian exiles. At least 34 people, including women, were shot to death...
