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Parliamentary elections in Afghanistan will likely be delayed until this summer or fall, a UN spokesman said Thursday. The elections were originally slated to be held before the end of the Aghan month Saur on May...

AP is reporting that a Florida judge has extended an emergency stay, keeping Terri Schiavo's feeding tube in place until 5 PM Friday.10:05 PM ET - Florida Circuit Judge George Greer extended the emergency stay until 5 PM Friday,...

Relatives of Terri Schiavo face each other in court Wednesday over the status of Schiavo's artificial life support. On Tuesday, Schiavo's husband Michael was granted the right to proceed with the removal of Terri's feeding tube...

AP is reporting that a Pinellas Circuit Court judge in Florida has issued an emergency stay to prevent the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube until late Wednesday afternoon.3 PM ET - An AP report is now available online....

The Second District Court of Appeals in Florida issued a one-page mandate on Tuesday allowing Michael Schiavo to remove the feeding tube which sustains his brain-damaged wife Terri Schiavo . Terri's parents were seeking an...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan defended the UN as being of "vital importance to humanity" as the body struggles to emerge from the cloud of the Oil-for-Food Program scandal. Annan's views were published in a...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Friday, Feb. 18.On Capitol Hill, the US Senate convenes at 10 AM ET for the reading of President George Washington's farewell address...

The Iraqi prisoner who died while in US custody at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and whose corpse was shown in photographs that emerged from the abuse scandal died in a position known as "Palestinian hanging"...

Amnesty International said Thursday that the recent imposition of emergency rule in Nepal by King Gyanendra has taken the country to the "brink of disaster" and that the human rights crisis in the country could...

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Wednesday that the European Union should recognize that the US will never accept the International Criminal Court and should seek a practical solution to the problem....