A federal judge in Chile placed former dictator Augusto Pinochet under house arrest Monday, marking the first time Pinochet has been detained on torture charges. Federal Judge Alejandro Solis ordered Pinochet's...

An Italian court on Monday ordered former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and British corporate lawyer David Mills to face trial on corruption charges. According to Italian media reports, Mills in 1997...

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Sunday he was optimistic that a proposed amendment to the Egyptian constitution to permit multi-candidate direct elections for the Egyptian presidency will pass when the Egyptian parliament...

Public trust in the Chinese judiciary needs in be restored in the face of court corruption and systemic failures to implement court orders, according to a report by the China's chief justice submitted to the Standing Committee of the...

Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri told a British appeals court Monday that his February conviction on incitement to murder charges should be overturned on the grounds that he was denied...

Khalil al-Dulaimi, chief defense counsel for Saddam Hussein , appeared in court Monday, presented 12 demands to the judge to be satisfied to end the ongoing defense team boycott, and stormed out of court after the presiding...

A British advocacy group condemned the UK government for failing to properly regulate hired mercenaries operating in Iraq and Afghanistan in a report released Monday that proposes regulations to hold mercenaries accountable for alleged abuses....

Absentee Ohio voters must continue to show proof of ID when casting ballots after a federal appeals court on Sunday stayed a lower court order , handed down last week, that would have temporarily suspended Ohio's...

The North Korean government is "actively committing crimes against humanity" by the starvation and political repression of North Korean citizens, according to a report released Sunday by a blue-ribbon panel comprised of Vaclav Havel , former...

Interim Audit Report on Inappropriate Use of Proprietary Data Markings By The Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) Contractor, US Federal Acquisition Regulation, October 29, 2006 [claiming that Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root Services, Inc. has been violating a US...