Eleven former military officers facing a court-martial on charges related to their roles in a 2003 coup attempt changed their pleas from not guilty to guilty Tuesday. The 11 are charged with conduct unbecoming an officer, and...

Defense counsel for Thomas Lubanga moved to dismiss all charges against the former Congolese militia leader at an International Criminal Court (ICC) status conference at The Hague Tuesday on the ground that prosecutors have refused...

California prisons need an influx of $7 billion to bring inmate healthcare up to constitutional standards, said court-appointed prison medical overseer J. Clark Kelso Monday. The state senate has been unwilling to authorize a...

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Monday dismissed a challenge to the US military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy which provides for the discharge of openly gay service...

The White House announced Monday that US President George W. Bush signed an executive order Friday directing all federal departments and agencies to require government contractors to use the US Department of Homeland...

Rwandan genocide suspect Dominique Ntawukuriryayo pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of genocide, complicity in genocide, and direct and public incitement to genocide before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) . Ntawukuriryayo...

British law enforcement and security officials appear sharply split on the advisability of extending the detention without charge limit for terror suspects to 42 days in the run-up to a Wednesday vote on a contentious new...

Human Rights Watch decried conditions at Guantanamo Bay as contrary to international norms of humane treatment in a report released Tuesday, saying that detainees face extreme isolation that can cause...

Fifteen members of Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) were released from custody Monday, two weeks after their arrests at a demonstration in support of detained party leader Aung San Suu Kyi . The activists...

Fourteen accused Zayidi Shi'ite rebels, among them outspoken Yemeni journalist Abdel Karim al-Khaywani , were sentenced in a Yemeni court Monday for their roles in an ongoing Shi'ite uprising. Thirteen of the rebels received sentences of...