By Dorian Jones Istanbul 31 March 2008 The Turkish Constitutional Court has announced it will hear the closure case against the ruling AK Party. The case accuses the party of seeking to undermine the secular state and includes a possible political ba...
By Jim Malone Washington 15 February 2007 Closing arguments are scheduled for Tuesday in the trial of former White House aide Lewis Libby. Libby was Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff and is accused of lying to investigators probing who lea...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 08 February 2007 The U.S. Senate has confirmed General George Casey, who had been the top American general in Iraq, as Army chief of staff. But the vote was far from unanimous, reflecting congressional concern about how...
By Phuong Tran dakar 30 January 2007 Former Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga is the first person to be tried by the world's only permanent global war crimes court, the Hague-based International Criminal Court. Phuong Tran reports from VOA's Ce...
By Jim Randle Irbil, Iraq 22 September 2006 Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein argues with a judge (file photo) Some of the investigators who gathered evidence for Saddam Hussein's trial on genocide charges have doubts about the ability of Iraq's...
By Lisa Ferdinando Miami 01 August 2006 A woman flies the Cuban flag from her vehicle as she drives in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood Tuesday Cuban exiles in Miami are celebrating the news that Cuban President Fidel Castro has temporarily handed...