Almost 30 years after the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, the group's second-in-command made his first appearance in court Monday. Noun Chea is charged with crimes against humanity and other serious offenses.

Chief Khmer Rouge interrogator Duch has stood before the UN-backed 'Killing Fields' tribunal in the first public appearance by a senior Pol Pot cadre at the court probing Cambodia's genocide.

An Iraqi appeals court upheld Tuesday the death sentence imposed on Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as 'Chemical Ali,' said the Iraqi TV station Al-Iraqiya.

A U.N.-backed genocide tribunal has charged a former Khmer Rouge prison chief with crimes against humanity -- the first such indictment against a leader of the regime blamed for the deaths of nearly two million Cambodians.

An Iraqi court has issued a death sentence to the man who has been widely known as "Chemical Ali" for masterminding the mass slaughter of ethnic Kurds in the late 1980s.