An appeals chamber at the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia Thursday sentenced a former Bosnian Serb Army general to life imprisonment for leading troops in attacks against civilians during the 1992-1994...
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ICTY appeals panel sentences Sarajevo siege general to life in prison
UN rights council to hold special session on Darfur
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Serb war crimes defendant refusing medical attention for hunger strike
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Video game industry wins two more court victories against violence laws
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Kentucky judge orders public hearings on lethal injection methods
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US urges Serbia to increase efforts to capture war crimes fugitives
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Saddam rejects mass grave testimony by US forensic experts
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US says EU carbon emissions plan violates international aviation treaty
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UK court approves extradition of British terror suspects to US
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China executes Christian sect leaders accused of killings
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The UN Human Rights Council agreed Thursday to hold a special session to look into human rights abuses committed in the Darfur region of Sudan. The rights body, established earlier this year...
Serb nationalist war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj , who has been on hunger strike for close to three weeks, has forbidden staff of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official...
The Entertainment Software Association , the trade group representing video game companies, won two more legal battles this week against laws aimed at restricting the sale of violent games to minors. On Tuesday, the US Court of Appeals...
A Kentucky judge on Wednesday ordered the state to hold public hearings on its lethal injection protocol, which the state changed two years ago after two death row inmates challenged it as a form of cruel and...
Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina must arrest former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic , both wanted on war crimes charges, in order to be further...
Saddam Hussein on Thursday rejected forensic evidence of mass graves presented by US experts in his genocide trial for the "Anfal" campaigns against ethnic Kurds in northern Iraq between 1987 and...
The European Union may face a legal challenge from the US over plans to extend the EU's greenhouse gas emission allowance trading program to cover all international flights to and from Europe. The European Union's Greenhouse Gas...
The UK High Court ruled Thursday that two British citizens charged with terrorism offenses can be extradited to the US to face terrorism charges. Haroon Rashid Aswat , wanted in the US on suspicion of...
Chinese authorities have executed the founder of a Chinese Christian church and two of his close associates for allegedly ordering the murders of several members of a rival religious sect, a lawyer for Xu Shuangfu ...
