Prosecutors at an appeals hearing in Arusha, Tanzania, Monday asked the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to overturn the genocide acquittals of two former Rwandan officials. One-time Rwandan Transport Minister Andre Ntagerura and...

A four-hour prison riot in Los Angeles County on Saturday was the result of racial tension, county Sheriff Lee Baca said Sunday. The riot, in which 2,000 inmates participated, took place at the maximum-security North County Correctional...

Leading Monday's international brief, in one of the first public signs of division inside the Zimbabwean government of President Robert Mugabe , the Zimbabwean Attorney General and the Zimbabwean Registrar General have expressed sharp disagreement concerning the proposed...

Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant has asked the Canadian federal government for the power to ban handguns, vowing to look to constitutional options if he is refused. Last last week Bryant criticized current Canadian firearms laws [Canadian...

Amnesty International (AI) Monday condemned as "shameful" the British government's inattention to the plight of nine long-term British residents currently being held at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba, and called...

UK Conservative Party leader David Cameron Monday urged a review of the traditionally-unilateral "royal prerogative" powers exercised by the prime minister in the name of the British monarch, including the powers to go...

American and European officials meeting in Munich Sunday at the annual Conference on Security Policy criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin for backsliding on his protection of human rights. US Senator John McCain went...

The House of Lords , the UK's highest court, hears arguments Monday in the case of a Muslim teenage girl who argues that a British school's decision to forbid her from wearing a Muslim jilbab to...

Some 30,000 Israelis protested in Jerusalem Sunday against the recent demolition of illegally built homes on the West Bank, a move which they fear heralds the beginning of a new wave of government-ordered Jewish settlement evacuations under the administration...

Some US senators are discussing a constitutional amendment which would place limits on the power of the president during times of war, according to a report by TIME magazine Sunday. A source close to the negotiations...