Rebels in Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rejected an offer of amnesty from Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Friday, calling the offer redundant. Museveni promised rebel leader Joseph Kony conditional amnesty...
An Italian judge ruled Friday that former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi should stand trial in November on alleged embezzlement, false accounting, tax fraud and money laundering charges in connection with a TV rights...
An appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Friday increased the sentence for former Rwandan mayor Sylvestre Gacumbitsi to life in prison , revising his 30-year prison sentence ,...
The German Bundesrat , the upper house of parliament, approved a landmark package of constitutional reforms aimed at separating and clarifying the powers of the federal and state governments. The legislation passed the lower...
Russian radio regulators have enjoined 60 radio stations from broadcasting material produced by Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty , citing violations of licensing laws. Re-broadcast licenses were stripped from the 60 stations because, according...
David Hicks , the Australian-born terror suspect held at Guantanamo Bay , told family members that conditions at the detention center have worsened in the wake of three detainee suicides in June, Hicks'...
France intends to grant residency papers to thousands of immigrant families with children in French schools, government officials said Thursday. Many children and their parents faced deportation at the end of the French school year after a deportation moratorium...
The new center-left government under Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi is considering granting citizenship to immigrants who have legally resided in Italy for five or more years, Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato said...
Tariq Aziz , the Iraqi deputy prime minister under Saddam Hussein's regime, has gone on hunger strike to protest the refusal of prison authorities to grant him access to his lawyer, a member of his...
US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad and Gen. George Casey , commander of US forces in Iraq, have promised an open investigation into the rape and murder of a young woman and her family in Mahmudiya [JURIST news...