During his weekly radio address Saturday, President George W. Bush urged Congress to limit debate on the bill reauthorizing sections of the Patriot Act and vote soon on the compromise ...

Retired Croatian general Ante Gotovina , has been transferred to the detention facility of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) Saturday following his arrest in Spain Wednesday. According to the...

At a conference in New Delhi Saturday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) launched a new code of Customary International Humanitarian Law setting down universal and customary rules of combat...

Germany's new foreign minister Frank Walter Steinmeier Saturday denied allegations that German officials may have aided the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the December 2003 abduction of German citizen Khaled El-Masri , who...

The US said Friday that it would not allow the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) access to a limited number of detainees who are held in secret locations around the world. It...

The US Department of Defense announced Friday that it has extended an invitation to special representative Anne-Marie Lizin of the 55-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to visit the...

At the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which ended Saturday in Montreal, states party to the Kyoto Protocol agreed to extend the life of the Protocol and begin a new...

The US government urged the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in court papers filed Friday to withdraw its September 9, 2005 opinion which denied the habeas petition of Jose Padilla [JURIST news...

UN Under-Secretary-General Jan Egeland , the UN humanitarian relief coordinator, told the UN Security Council Friday not to weaken a proposed resolution on protecting civilians in war zones, reminding delegations of the 26 million people forced...

The Prosecutor v. Slobodan Milosevic, Decision on Assigned Counsel Application for Interview and Testimony of Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, December 9, 2005. Read the full text of the decision. Reported in JURIST's...