Peru's Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a prosecutor's request to extradite former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori from Chile so that he can face corruption and human rights charges in Peru. Supreme Court Justice Jose Luis Lecaros denied...

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke ordered Wednesday that British citizen Babar Ahmad be extradited to the United States where he will face charges of terrorism, conspiring to kill Americans and running a website...

Former Bosnian Army commander Sefer Halilovic was acquitted Wednesday by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on war crimes charges . The ICTY ruled that court prosecutors did not prove that Halilovic,...

Massachusetts legislators Tuesday rejected a bill 100-53 which proposed the reinstatement of the death penalty. Massachusetts has not used capital punishment since 1947. The bill was proposed in April by Republican Governor Mitt Romney [official...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, Former Indonesian acting secretary-general of the General Elections Commission (KPU) Sussongko Sahardjo has been found guilty on charges of corruption and bribery and is facing sentencing that could...

The US Department of Justice said Tuesday that it is backing an attempt by congressional Republicans to split up the largest federal appeals court in the US, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official...

The Iraqi Islamic Party , one of Iraq's largest Sunni parties, on Wednesday demanded an international investigation into allegations that security forces illegally detained and tortured suspected insurgents at secret jails in Baghdad. Omar...

Senate Amendment 2524 to S. 1042 (the 2006 defense appropriations bill), US Senate, November 10, 2005 [mitigating an earlier amendment by Senator Lindsey Graham by giving detainees an opportunity to appeal the rulings of a military tribunal, but otherwise cutting...

David M. Hicks v. George W. Bush, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, November 14, 2005 [staying the military commission trial of Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks until the US Supreme Court rules on...

Pentagon officials admitted Tuesday that US troops in Iraq used white phosphorus as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants during a 2004 military assault on the insurgent-controlled city of Fallujah, but remained adamant that it...