A hearing in China's case against former New York Times researcher Zhao Yan has been scheduled for Friday, Zhao's lawyer announced on Monday. Zhao is charged with providing state secrets to foreigners, and faces a possible prison sentence of 10 years. The court could render a verdict during the hearing, which was previously delayed in [...]

UN nuclear inspectors said Monday that Iran has denied them access to an underground nuclear site, and UN officials said that by refusing to allow access Iran may be in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Meanwhile, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , Iran's supreme leader, said Monday that the country would continue to pursue nuclear technology. [...]

Former Burundi President Domitien Ndayizeye was arrested Monday in connection with an ongoing investigation into an alleged plot to overthrow the current government. Authorities say he was taken in for questioning by prosecutors. Earlier this month, Burundi officials arrested five former government officials , including the former vice president, in connection with the alleged planned [...]

Indonesian authorities on Monday stayed the executions of Amrozi Nurhasyim, Ali Gufron and Imam Samudra, three of the men convicted for the bombings that killed over 200 people at a Bali nightclub in 2002 , allowing time for the men to file a final appeal. The executions had been scheduled for Tuesday, but defense lawyers [...]

One of the terror suspects arrested in London earlier this month in connection with the foiled terror plot to bomb airplanes crossing the Atlantic Ocean has challenged his continued detention in a London court. Lawyers for "Detainee J" have petitioned the High Court in London for an emergency hearing Monday in an attempt to secure [...]

Philippine President Gloria Arroyo on Monday appointed an independent commission to investigate "the series of extrajudicial killings of journalists and militant activists in the country." Arroyo has been criticized for the government's failure to solve the growing number of politically motivated killings of leftist activists and journalists. Members of Bayan , a leftist advocacy group, [...]

Carla Del Ponte , chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , on Monday called Serbia's continued failure to arrest war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic "inexcusable," saying he should be on trial with a group of seven Bosnian Serb military and paramilitary officers charged with massacring 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica in [...]

Saddam Hussein refused to enter a plea Monday as he and six co-defendants went on trial on genocide and crimes against humanities charges in connection to the so-called "Anfal" operation that led to the killings of as many as 100,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the 1980s. Chief Judge Abdullah al-Amiri entered a plea of [...]

Israeli intelligence forces on Sunday arrested Mahmoud al-Ramahi, a top member of Hamas and secretary-general of the Palestinian Legislative Council , one day after Israeli forces detained the Palestinian deputy prime minister . Israel regards Hamas as a terrorist organization and has arrested many members of the Hamas leadership in recent months, beginning with the [...]

A spokesman for the government of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has urged Iranian prosecutors to pursue charges against several Iranian newspapers who have published articles accusing Ahmadinejad of financial wrongdoing in recent weeks. In a letter sent to Tehran's prosecutor, government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham accused the media of "spreading lies" and said that the [...]