Defense lawyers argued that Croatian journalist Josip Jovic should not have been prosecuted for contempt as his trial began Tuesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. Jovic,...

The government of Italy was not involved in and did not know in advance of the CIA's alleged extraordinary rendition of an Egyptian cleric , an Italian defense official told legislators Tuesday....

A lawyer representing one of 17 Canadians arrested on terror charges in June argued Monday in an Ontario court that Canada's anti-terror legislation discriminates because it focuses only on "brown" Muslim and Arab groups...

President Bush again urged the US Senate on Tuesday to pass legislation allowing him to use a line-item veto to weed out what the White House has labeled wasteful spending. In White House remarks...

The European Court of Justice Tuesday found former French prime minister Edith Cresson breached the obligations of her office by indulging in favoritism and abuse of office when she served as a...

Application of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions to the Treatment of Detainees in the Department of Defense, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England, July 7, 2006 [directing that all DOD personnel adhere to Article 3 standards on...

China has rejected a strongly worded UN Security Council official website] resolution responding to North Korea's missile launches earlier this month, instead proposing a mild resolution to encourage North Korea not to launch test-missiles....

A group of twenty retired military officers has submitted a letter to the US Senate Judiciary Committee expressing "deep concern" about the fitness of William Haynes II , the current Pentagon general counsel,...

Khieu Samphan , the former head of state of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime, left his home overnight and headed toward a neighboring province, just hours after prosecutors began compiling evidence against former Khmer...

Colorado state lawmakers passed a bill Monday that will force residents receiving state or federal benefits to prove their citizenship in order to continue receiving aid, in what some are calling one of the toughest...