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Members of the private Minuteman Civil Defense Corps have begun a new month-long campaign in US states bordering Mexico and Canada to raise public awareness of illegal immigration. Minuteman volunteers watch the borders...

JURIST Guest Columnist David Crane, former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, now at Syracuse University College of Law, says it's time for Nigeria to hand over former Liberian president Charles Taylor for trial on war crimes...

The Council of Europe said Wednesday that an investigation into allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency operated secret prisons in Europe revealed no "smoking gun" evidence that proved the existence of the prisons. COE...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, South Korea has nominated its Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon as a candidate for the office of the UN Secretary-General . The office, currently held by Kofi Annan is up for...

JURIST Guest Columnist David Kairys of Temple University School of Law says that senators weighing the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court should be wary of endorsing his commitment to legal technicalities over core constitutional values......

Brazil, the country with the world's highest death rate from firearms , Sunday firmly rejected a ban on gun and ammunition sales in its first national referendum. Initial pre-referendum surveys had indicated a favorable view of the ban,...

President Bush has commended the passing of legislation shielding the firearms industry from civil lawsuits brought by cities, municipalities and victims of gun crimes and says he looks forward to signing the bill into law. The Protection...

JURIST Guest Columnist Clark Lombardi of the University of Washington School of Law says that given the ambiguous and open-ended nature of the draft Iraqi constitution, its approval in the October 15 referendum would only mark the start of much...

Gun control advocates are set to start an intensive media campaign to alert travelers about a new Florida law that allows people to respond to threats by using guns at home or in public ....

Leading Thursday's states brief, the Florida Supreme Court ruled today that gun makers, sued by cities and counties seeking to recover the costs of providing services for gun-related violence, are not covered by their commercial liability insurance...