A military panel Friday found US Army Spc. Jorge G. Sandoval not guilty of murder in the shooting deaths of three unarmed Iraqis but convicted him of planting evidence to cover up the shootings. Sandoval, along with Staff Sgt....

The government of Cuba Thursday detained at least forty protesters who gathered outside the Ministry of Justice to demand humane treatment for the country's estimated 250 political prisoners. All but one of those detained were released...

Over 1,000 demonstrators faced off with riot police in Lima, Peru Thursday, demanding the release of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori . Fujimori was extradited to Peru Saturday following the Supreme Court of...

The government of the Philippines has used an immigration blacklist , consisting of 504 people allegedly linked to al Qaeda or the Taliban, to ban its critics from entering the country, Human...

The US will donate $5 million to the UN-backed tribunal established to investigate and try suspects in the 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , US Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan dismissed legal challenges Friday to a bid by current Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to run for another term as president while still serving as chief of the Pakistani...

The US Department of Defense has formally allowed fourteen "high-value" terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay the right to request lawyers, the Washington Post reported Friday. The move could pave the way for the "high-value" detainees...

Three senior Bush administration officials urged the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee to approve the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Thursday. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England...

An east Siberian court Friday ruled that former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky should remain in custody for another three months in order to prevent him from obstructing a new investigation into Khodorkovsky and...

The US Supreme Court issued a stay of execution Thursday for a a Texas inmate just hours before he was scheduled to be executed. Earlier this week, the Court granted certiorari [JURIST...