Chief UN war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte was unceremoniously cut off at a Friday hearing for seven Bosnian Serbs indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in connection with the...

AP is reporting that a federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that struck down Nebraska's ban on same-sex marriage . A federal judge struck down the ban last May, ruling that it...

Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Thursday that the United Nations does not have the authority to compel Serbia on the status of Kosovo, and that the two parties need to reach a negotiated agreement on the...

Mexican leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , who officially lost the July 2 presidential election by .6 percent of the vote, on Thursday presented new evidence for his claims of extensive fraud, showing reporters...

US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday expressed skepticism at the idea of allowing television cameras into Supreme Court proceedings, saying that the justices are concerned that cameras could have an "adverse impact" on the...

The US Senate approved an amendment to a Homeland Security Appropriations Act 2007 Thursday that would prohibit the confiscation of legally owned guns during emergencies by a margin of 84-16 ....

The highest-ranking lawyers from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines weighed in on how terror detainees should be judged during a Thursday Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the impact of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld . The...

Sarajevo's Canton Court sentenced former Bosnian Army soldier Samir Bejtic to 14 1/2 years in prison Thursday for killing Bosnian Serbs in 1993 during the 1992-95 Bosnian war . A member of the Sarajevo-based Tenth Mountain...

Saudi Arabia would like to have all of its nationals held at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay returned to Saudi custody within one year, Saudi ambassador to the United States Prince Turki Al-Faisal [official...

Efrain Rios Montt , a former Guatemalan dictator, has called Spanish National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz's order for Montt's arrest last week unfounded, insisting that he did not know of any crimes against humanity committed by...