China death penalty law revised to require high court approval of sentences
China's National People's Congress voted Tuesday to amend the Organic Law on the People's Courts so that only the Supreme People's Court has the authority to approve the death penalty . The...
Appeals court blocks US handover of American to Iraqis before high court ruling
The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Iraqi-American Mohammed Munaf had to be given ten days to appeal his case to the US Supreme Court and then the high court had to be accorded...
Iran president balks at fingerprinting bill aimed at US visitors
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that he opposes a bill, passed during a preliminary reading in the Iran parliament earlier this month, that would require every American visitor in Iran to be fingerprinted upon...
Iran preemptively denounces Security Council nuclear sanctions
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Friday decried any potential action by the UN Security Council to impose sanctions against Iran for continuing to enrich uranium past a August 31 deadline imposed by Security...
Federal court refuses to block transfer of US citizen to Iraq to face death penalty
The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday denied an emergency motion to prevent the US military from surrendering translator and accused kidnapper Mohammad Munaf, a US citizen,...
Russia law forces non-compliant NGOs to shut down operations
Several domestic and foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in Russia will be forced to shut down after missing Wednesday's deadline to obtain the necessary permits required by a controversial new law. Foreign-funded NGOs are required to register with the...
UN General Assembly appoints Ban Ki-Moon as next secretary-general
The United Nations General Assembly appointed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon as the next UN secretary-general on Friday. Ban, a career diplomat, is set to succeed Kofi Annan when the...
A spokesperson for Patrick Fitzgerald's Office of Special Counsel told AP Tuesday that the investigation of the CIA leak case has cost taxpayers $1.44 million through August 31, and the Government Accountability Office [official...
Uganda to ask ICC to retract war crimes indictments for LRA rebels
The Ugandan government said Thursday that it will ask the International Criminal Court (ICC) to withdraw its plans to arrest leaders of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) . If the indicted...
Plaintiffs in the 10-year-old Indian Trust case on Monday petitioned the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reconsider a decision to pull an outspoken judge [JURIST...
