French prosecutors Monday urged a criminal court in Creteil, a suburb of Paris, to convert the sentences of six French aid workers convicted and sentenced in Chad for their role in the attempted airlift of 103 supposed...

A former defense lawyer for German Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison Monday after being convicted of incitement and insulting the court during Zundel's original trial in 2005. Throughout Zundel's...

The European Commission (EC) Monday announced formal investigations into two new allegations that Microsoft has abused its dominant market position regarding a range of Internet and operating system software. The EC will...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the US military have installed a video teleconferencing system at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan to allow detainees held at the base to speak with loved ones,...

Lawyers and activists from 38 Asian Pacific countries meeting Monday at the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Environmental Justice and Enforcement in Bangkok, Thailand, criticized lax enforcement of environmental laws throughout Asia, saying that governments have ignored enforcement...

Two Russian offices of the British Council in St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg resumed operations Monday, defying a shutdown order from the Russian government. Russian authorities say that the Council has violated Russian tax laws; the...

A judge on Iraq's federal court of appeal was assassinated by gunmen Monday morning on his way to work in the western Baghdad district of Mansour. Amir Jawdat al-Naeib was also a member of the Supreme Judicial Council, the...

Admiral Mike Mullen , the Chairman of the US military's Joint Chiefs of Staff , said in an interview with reporters Sunday that the US facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba should be closed. Mullen,...

Chief of the South African Police Services Jackie Selebi resigned as president of INTERPOL on Sunday, in the wake of news that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of South Africa would be filing...

Croatian lawmaker Branimir Glavas , charged with committing war crimes against Serbs during the 1991 Serbo-Croatian war , was stripped of his parliamentary immunity on Saturday so that lawyers could proceed with his prosecution....