Justice George Gelaga King, newly-elected president of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) , has dismissed a defense challenge to a prosecutor’s motion to move the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague in the Netherlands. Taylor, who is being tried [...]

President Bush Wednesday pledged to aid the Rwandan government in apprehending individuals involved in the 1994 genocide during a meeting with Rwandan President Paul Kagame at the White House. Bush also offered to reimburse Rwanda for sending some of its troops to help quell the conflict in Darfur , where what the administration claims is [...]

A preliminary investigation by the US Department of Defense (DOD) in February and March uncovered evidence that the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians by US Marines in Haditha in November were without warning or provocation, US officials said Wednesday. The evidence from the probe did not square with the accounts of the Marines involved, who [...]

A former Enron broadband executive was found guilty Wednesday on one count of falsifying records and conspiracy and three counts of wire fraud, and another was acquitted on the same five charges, one year after their first trial ended in a hung jury . Former CFO Kevin Howard, who was convicted, and senior accounting director [...]

A leader of the Islamic Action Front , the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, Wednesday criticized Jordan's draft anti-terrorism legislation as an oppressive, US-influenced bid to stifle Jordan's government reform movement and encourage the establishment of a police state in the country. The bill, first proposed last November in response to the [...]

A group of survivors of the September 2004 Beslan school siege in the Russia's North Ossetia republic announced Wednesday that they will appeal the guilty verdict against Nurpashi Kulayev , the sole surviving attacker, to the Russian Supreme Court . The survivors, part of the Voice of Beslan (Golos Beslan) , told the Itar-Tass news [...]

US President George W. Bush on Wednesday publicly expressed concern about the alleged killings of 24 Iraqi civilians by US Marines in the city of Haditha in November 2005, declaring that any soldiers found guilty would be punished. Asked about the incident at a White House photo op, Bush said: I am troubled by the [...]

A Spanish judge asked the Spanish Constitutional Court on Wednesday to reopen an investigation into corruption charges against former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi stemming from Berlusconi's holdings in Spanish television channel Telecinco , which Spanish prosecutors believe exceeded the 25 percent television channel ownership cap imposed by Spanish law. Prosecutors halted the proceedings, which [...]

The judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) held a plenary session Tuesday to consider revisions to the Tribunal's Rules of Procedure and Evidence in which they "discussed methods to better organise trials, particularly at the pre-trial stage, in order to ensure more expeditious proceedings," according to an ICTY press release [...]

The parliament of Nepal has unanimously adopted a resolution that would guarantee citizenship papers to children in their mother's name only, even if the father is away or divorced, and require more-proportionate representation of women in the state work force. The resolution, passed Tuesday, is not yet law, but women's rights groups nonetheless hailed its [...]