The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a $4 million verdict against a former Chilean Army officer for the killing of a political prisoner during the 1973 coup in Chile . The 2003 jury...

Former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume has announced that he will run for US Senate in 2006, entering the race for the MD seat that Sen. Paul Sarbanes said Friday he would vacate after his current term. Mfume,...

Former chess champion Bobby Fischer must be deported to the US under Japanese law, Japanese Immigration Bureau chief Masaharu Miura said Tuesday. Fischer has been fighting deportation to his home country, but Miura said that...

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Wal-Mart violated labor laws when it disciplined an employee for wearing a union t-shirt and announcing a union meeting to co-workers. In...

Leading the international brief, the International Criminal Court held its first-ever hearing Tuesday, a status conference focusing on the need for witness protection and evidence preservation in the investigation of Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo ...

Turkey is on track with reforms it pledged to undertake in its pursuit of EU membership, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Tuesday in an interview with the Financial Times. Gul rejected criticism that...

A French court Tuesday sentenced six to jail terms for an alleged plot to bomb the US embassy in France in 2001. French-Algerian Djamel Beghal received a 10-year sentence as the leader of the group, while five...

Twenty-eight people died Tuesday during a raid on a Philippine maximum security prison as police acted to suppress an uprising headed by prisoners affiliated with the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group . Abu Sayyaf is linked to al-Qaida and...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour told the 61st session of the UN Commission on Human Rights Monday that nations are falling short of their responsibilities to protect and promote human...

Addressing an audience at DC's Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars Monday, Justice Antonin Scalia of the US Supreme Court called the recent 5-4 ruling striking down the juvenile death penalty the latest...