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In Monday's international brief, US lawmakers from the House International Relations Subcommittee on Africa who met with Sudanese government officials and displaced Sudanese refugees in Chad over the weekend are expected to announce that they will urge...

Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko will be sworn in as the new Ukrainian president at noon on Sunday. The Ukrainian Parliament voted to approve a Sunday ceremony after the country's Supreme Court rejected...

Attorney General John Ashcroft is expected to announce Tuesday afternoon the first charges in the governemnt's investigation into alleged corruption in the UN-administered oil-for-food program . According to Justice Department sources, Ashcroft will announce a plea agreement with...

Israel's High Court of Justice issued a temporary injunction Thursday instructing state workers "to refrain from all uprooting of trees or orchards and digging, paving, leveling, construction or other preparations" for the erecting of the security fence...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Thursday, January 13.Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer will discuss the relevance of foreign law for American constitutional adjudication at a forum...

Jama v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Supreme Court of the United States, January 12, 2005, [ruling that a refugee living in the US could be deported after receiving a criminal conviction, even if their country of destination does not consent...

Military prosecutors late Thursday dropped adultery and obstruction of justice charges against US Army Spc. Charles Graner on the eve of Friday's start of jury selection in his court-martial trial in connection with abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu...

Kenneth Anderson, Washington College of Law American University:"One thing that is missing in the whole torture-interrogation debate is the question of who you are interrogating. Can you use a different level of interrogation on Zarqawi, for example - knowing it...

Case Concerning Legality of the Use of Force (Serbia and Montenegro v. United Kingdom), International Court of Justice, December 15, 2004 [ruling in this case and 7 other like cases against NATO countries that the court had no jurisdiction because...

The International Court of Justice at The Hague ruled Wednesday that it could not hear a case brought by Serbia and Montenegro against eight NATO countries - Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands and Portugal - in...