Foreign judges who will preside over the trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders arrived in Cambodia on Sunday in preparation for the genocide tribunal that is slated to begin proceedings in mid-2007. The judges, who hail from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Japan, Poland, Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, and the US, will be on hand during [...]

A new so-called “shoot first” (alternatively, "stand your ground") law took effect in Georgia on Saturday allowing state residents to use deadly force to respond to threats in public places with no duty to retreat. The law, which easily passed through the Republican-controlled state legislature beginning with the state Senate in March, also frees shooters [...]

Serbian Defense Minister Zoran Stankovic said Saturday that US and British intelligence agents are helping with the search for indicted UN war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic . The Serbian government holds that it has done everything in its power to locate Mladic, and recently announced that Mladic had been hiding in Serbia until last year, [...]

Thousands of Parisians marched through the city Saturday in a protest against a contentious new immigration law passed by the French Parliament Friday. The new law makes it more difficult for immigrants to obtain residency permits and ends the practice of automatically granting long-term residency papers to illegal immigrants who are able to prove that [...]

Former Mexican president Luis Echeverria was under house arrest Saturday after a Mexican appeals court ruled Friday that it had enough evidence to charge him with genocide in connection with his role in putting down a 1968 student revolt in which dozens, perhaps even hundreds , of protesters were killed by police and military officers. [...]

Brian J. Foley : "The Supreme Court has finally spoken on the military commissions, after four-and-one-half years. Now it's time for Congress to step up – as it should have four-and-one-half years ago, when the Administration first created these commissions and proceeded to build a fake justice system to try suspected 'enemy combatants.' Let's hope [...]

The head of a European inspection team tasked with evaluating the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay said Friday that there may be only 30-40 "real" cases of terrorism there and recommended that the facility be shut down by the end of 2007. Anne-Marie Lizin , the president of the Belgian Senate and special representative [...]

An African Union panel recommended on Friday that former Chadian president Hissene Habre , accused of committing torture, mass killings, and other abuses in the 1980s, face trial in Africa instead of in Belgium, which last September issued an international arrest warrant for the ex-dictator, who has been in exile in Senegal since 1990. The [...]

Federal prosecutors Friday argued that the homes and other assets owned by former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were obtained by fraud, and petitioned a judge to order the two men to turn over nearly $183 million in assets. Last month, a jury in Houston convicted Lay on all six fraud and conspiracy [...]

The new Human Rights Council of the United Nations voted Friday to review alleged human rights abuses by Israel in all future council sessions, a move which was protested by both Israel and the US as unfair. Islamic countries lobbied in favor of the resolution, which passed 29-12, while Israel said the measure simply perpetuated [...]