A Rwandan community court convicted a Catholic nun of genocide charges Friday for assisting in the Hutumassacre of Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . The nun, Theopister Mukakibibi, reportedly aided Hutu extremist groups and facilitated...

Italian prosecutors have reportedly added an 11-page handwritten note to their compilation of evidence in the case of the alleged 2003 CIA kidnapping of Egyptian cleric Moustafa Hassan Nasr in Italy. In...

UK Home Secretary John Reid has advocated a range of criminal sentencing reforms for UK courts in a consultation paper released Thursday that accords judges greater discretion to increase sentences for dangerous criminals and advises...

Canada's highest-ranking judges took the unusual step Thursday of responding publicly and negatively to a suggestion by Canadian Justice Minister Vic Toews that law enforcement representatives be added to the regional panels that screen candidates for federal...

Affirmative action coalition By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Proposal 2 , the amendment approved by Michigan voters on Nov. 7 to restrict affirmative action...

A Leeds Crown Court jury entered a unanimous not guilty verdict Friday for British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin and senior aide Mark Collett in their retrial on charges of inciting racial...

A UK man was convicted Thursday of inciting racial hatred during a February protest in London against publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad . Mizanur Rahman, 23, was arrested after a rally at the...

The Bush administration and Democrats on Capitol Hill appear likely to clash over legislation authorizing domestic surveillance of suspected terrorists when the lame-duck Congress returns to Washington next week. During a Rose Garden appearance following a...

A Massachusetts legislature vote on a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage has been postponed until January. Although opponents of same-sex marriage had obtained 170,000 signatures in favor of putting the...

A US judge hearing a motion to move Malcolm Watson's parole sentence from Canada to New York has denied that the sex offender had been "exiled" or "banished" to Canada. Watson was convicted by a New York court [JURIST...