A UN delegation led by Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicolas Michel arrived in the south African nation of Burundi Monday to help establish a truth and reconciliation commission and war crimes court. According to Michel,...

Microsoft on Monday appealed a ruling from the South Korean Fair Trade Commission that the company breached antitrust laws by bundling its Windows operating system with Microsoft programs. In the decision ...

Zimbabwe government on Monday announced new anti-terrorism laws that would allow the government to outlaw any group it declares to be a "foreign or international terrorist organization." The proposed Suppression of Foreign and International Terrorism Bill...

The sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui on Monday enters what analysts expect to be a critical week, with testimony from Moussaoui and other key witnesses. Prosecutors concluded their case for giving Moussaoui the death...

A spokesman in Nigeria for former Liberian president Charles Taylor said Monday that his whereabouts are unknown, after Nigeria indicated over the weekend that Liberia could take Taylor into custody to stand trial for war...

Several hundred people led by Islamic clerics protested in Afghanistan Monday against the suggested release of a man who converted from Islam to Christianity. The religious leaders called for Abdul Rahman to be tried under Islamic sharia...

US District Judge Ivan Lemelle will hold a hearing Monday to hear arguments from civil rights groups that the upcoming April 22 municipal elections in New Orleans should be postponed because many African-American residents have been...

US troops in Iraq reportedly arrested more than 40 Iraqi Interior Ministry personnel Sunday after the discovery of a secret bunker complex in central Baghdad holding 17 foreign prisoners. In November 2005, some 170 Sunni detainees...

Newly-disclosed comments by US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made after a speech at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland earlier this month have touched off a furor in the lead-up to Tuesday's oral arguments in Hamdan...

Key organizers of election protests in the Belarus capital city of Minsk who were detained by police will face criminal charges, Belarus Interior Minister Vladimir Naumov said Sunday. Thousands of citizens gathered...