Democratic Party officials in Missouri filed a class-action lawsuit Monday seeking a permanent injunction against the enforcement of a new state law that requires voters to show photo identification at the polls...
The Supreme Court of Chile has upheld a lower court's ruling stripping former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity, allowing a homicide case against him to proceed. The court's public relations office announced Monday that...
ICTY chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte and EU diplomats have criticized a new Serbian plan to arrest war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic as too vague, although they acknowledged "positive elements." The...
British Home Secretary John Reid announced Monday that he is banning four groups under the UK Terrorism Act 2006 . The UK-based Al-Ghurabaa and the Saved Sect , as well...
The government of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is planning to introduce a new law that will clear victims' names and "correct" trial records in an effort to bring justice to victims of former Spanish...
Leaders of the US House of Representatives have decided to move forward with a vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment , which would amend the US constitution to ban same-sex marriage, despite...
British officials from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have decided not to prosecute any individual police officers for the death of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot and killed by London police...
Saddam Hussein and three co-defendants have entered their tenth day of a hunger strike protesting the lack of security for defense lawyers in their trial, US military spokesman Lt. Col. Keir-Kevin Curry said Monday....
The United States will not help Germany investigate the alleged abduction of Khaled el-Masri , a Lebanese born German citizen who claims that the US Central Intelligence Agency seized him in Macedonia in 2003 in...
Israel is using "internationally prohibited weapons against civilians" in Lebanon as the country faces "real annihilation," according to a statement from Lebanon Information Minister Ghazi Aridi Sunday after an emergency cabinet meeting. Lebanese media reports state that Israel used...