European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering Wednesday faulted the ruling junta of Myanmar for saying it would go ahead with a scheduled May 10 referendum on a draft constitution in the aftermath of a devastating...

The Court of Appeal in London Wednesday rejected a government bid to challenge an order by the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission to remove an Iranian opposition group from its blacklist of terror organizations. The Court...

A technical problem delayed the start of the arraignment hearing for Yemeni Guantanamo detainee Ali Hamza Ahman Sulayman al-Bahlul Wednesday when a courtroom sound feed in the brand new Guantanamo legal compound cut off for reporters in the spectator...

The ruling Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) both filed legal challenges to the parliamentary results of Zimbabwe's March 29 general election Wednesday. ZANU-PF filed...

Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez , a former US commanding general in Iraq, said in a new book published Tuesday that there is "irrefutable evidence" that the US military tortured and killed detainees in Afghanistan at the end of...

US President George W. Bush submitted three new nominations for the Federal Elections Commissions (FEC) to the Senate Tuesday in an effort to break a deadlock which has left the FEC without a quorum to...

Lawyers for Guantanamo detainees claim that the US government of has eavesdropped on conversations with their clients , according to court papers filed Tuesday by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) . The filing came as...

Kenyan Chief Prosecutor Keriako Tobiko Tuesday asked the country's high court to freeze the assets of wealthy Hutu businessman and Rwandan war crimes suspect Felicien Kabuga . Kabuga is accused of funding Rwandan militias that...

Agents from the White House Office of Personnel Management and the FBI Tuesday searched the home and office of US Office of Special Counsel (OSC) head Scott J. Bloch as part of an investigation into...

Georgia Tuesday evening carried out the first execution in the United States since the US Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Kentucky's lethal injection protocol and ended a de facto national moratorium on the death penalty. Both...