Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced Monday he was resigning from office in order to avoid impeachment proceeding by the country's parliament. In a television address , Musharraf denied any wrongdoing, but said that the proceedings alone would damage the country. Earlier on Monday, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) coalition [...]

Chad Hazlett and Nina McMurry : "The debate continues as to whether Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir should be offered a way out of a possible ICC indictment via Article 16 of the Rome Statute. There are good reasons to worry that pursuing an indictment is a mistake. The first is that the situation is too [...]

The US Justice Department has sent so-called target letters to six Blackwater USA guards involved in the September 16 killings of 17 Iraqi civilians , the Washington Post reported Sunday. Sources told the Post that the letters, which provide an opportunity for the recipients to contest grand jury evidence, indicate the Justice Department will likely [...]

The US-led Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-Iraq) announced Saturday that the first hearing of a US soldier charged in connection with the death of an Iraqi detainee will begin on September 5 . Staff Sgt. Hal M. Warner, who was stationed about 130 miles north of Baghdad, was charged early this month with premeditated murder, assault, accessory [...]

Officials of Myanmar opposition group the National League for Democracy (NLD) said Sunday that the government has sentenced five of its members to prison for participating in a march commemorating the mass student protests against the junta held on August 8, 1988. The 2008 protest, held in the Rakhine province, included 48 people, and police [...]

Belarusian officials released opposition politician Alexander Kozulin from prison Saturday after two years' detention for staging political protests. Kozulin was sentenced to more than five years in prison in July 2006 for leading unauthorized protests over the controversial re-election of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko earlier that year. Authorities granted him temporary leave in February this [...]

The possibility that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will face impeachment increased Saturday as a spokesman for the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) , the main ruling party in the country, said it will not protect him from criminal charges if he does not announce he will step down. AP quoted Pakistan foreign minister and PPP member [...]

Former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre and eleven other rebel commanders were sentenced to death Friday in a Chadian court for crimes against the state after a mass trial in which dozens were tried. Habre is currently living in Senegal where he is to be eventually tried on charges for murder and torture. The court, lead [...]

Chinese media reported Friday that the Shanghai Municipal First Intermediate People's Court sentenced a former city official to death after being convicted of multiple corruption charges on Thursday, though the sentence will not be imposed for another two years. Former deputy director of the Shanghai Housing, Land and Resources Administration Bureau Yin Guoguan was suspected [...]

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic presented a formal request to the UN General Assembly Friday seeking a determination by the International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo's February declaration of independence from Serbia. Jeremic sought to have the anticipated request included on the agenda for the General Assembly's upcoming 63rd Session in September. [...]