US-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday that indiscriminate Israeli air and artillery strikes on Lebanese civilians cannot be systematically dismissed as accidents and called several of Israel's attacks "war crimes" in a...

German Chancellor Angel Merkel called the conditions in the remote Siberia prison holding former Yukos Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky "unacceptable" in a letter published Thursday, and said...

The new French iTunes copyright legislation went into effect Thursday, allowing French regulators to force Apple Computer to make its iPod player compatible with songs downloaded from other Internet music stores, and downloads...

Nepal's High Level Probe Commission Thursday questioned army chief Pyar Jung Thapa as part of the panel's continuing investigation of alleged human rights abuses during pro-democracy protests in April which brought an end to the 14-month...

Four US Army soldiers charged with the premeditated murder of Iraqi detainees refused to testify during their Article 32 hearing Thursday, following the lead of several superior officers who invoked their right not to...

A Malawian court Wednesday sentenced the former principal secretary in the country's Ministry of Education to two years in jail for "aiding and abetting the theft of public funds," making him the most senior civil servant to...

British anti-war campaigners have unveiled a legal campaign against the British government's involvement in the ongoing Middle East conflict , seeking to stop flights carrying weapons sent from the United States to Israel from stopping at British...

Following up on previous consultations with Republican lawmakers , US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said on Capitol Hill Wednesday that Congress should clarify the definition of war crimes prohibited by Common Article 3 of the...

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wednesday ordered the full disclosure of records from a lawsuit filed by four Connecticut librarians against the FBI challenging a National Security Letter (NSL) [text, PDF; ACLU...

US District Judge Marcia Cooke on Wednesday agreed to delay the trial of terror suspect Jose Padilla and two co-defendants until January 22 after defense attorneys said they will not be ready to begin...