Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Khek Iev, also known as Duch, was charged with crimes against humanity Tuesday by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) . Duch...

Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service searched the home of US Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) Monday as part of an investigation into Stevens' relationship with VECO Corp. founder Bill Allen, who...

The US House of Representatives Monday approved a non-binding resolution , asking Japan to formally apologize for enslaving hundreds of thousands of women in East Asia and the Pacific to serve as "comfort...

Russian prosecutors have brought fresh embezzlement charges against exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky , a lawyer appointed to Berezovsky's case said Monday. The charges assert that in 1997 Berezovsky took part in a $13 million...

Humanitarian and relief non-governmental organizations (NGO) are currently unable to effectively meet the needs of eight million Iraqi refugees as a result of Iraq's poor legal framework, according to a joint report issued Monday by Oxfam and...

The court-martial of the last US Army serviceman charged in the March 2006 rape and murder of a 14-year old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family in Mahmudiya (also "Mahmoudiya") began Monday. Pfc. Jesse...

Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts was taken to the hospital Monday after suffering a fall. Supreme Court spokesperson Kathy Arberg said Monday that Roberts fell at his vacation home in Maine...

The Iraqi Council of Representatives entered its summer recess Monday despite failing to pass constitutional amendments or legislation seen as essential to the stabilization of Iraq. A representative said that the council, which is scheduled...

Five defendants convicted for their roles in the slaughter of tens of thousands of Kurds during the 1988 Anfal campaign have filed appeals with the Appeals Chamber of the Iraqi High Tribunal , Iraqi prosecutors said...

The last two remaining defendants in Ethiopia's criminal treason prosecution of individuals allegedly involved in mass anti-government demonstrations in 2005 have denied association with the opposition party Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) and are...