Japans ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) , its coalition partner the New Komeito Party and its largest opposition, the Democratic Party of Japan , agreed Wednesday to establish a...
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AP is reporting that a federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools with the language "under God" is unconstitutional. The judge granted legal standing to...
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a British ban on parent and children-in-law marriages violated rights guaranteed by Article 12 of the European Convention on Human Rights . A man...
Thousands of demonstrators continued to pour into Kathmandu Wednesday to protest the totalitarian rule of King Gyanendra . Nepali police detained hundreds of pro-democracy activists Tuesday in the capitol city, including a former prime minister, for...
Russian President Vladimir Putin was the first world leader to sign the UN Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism , which opened for signatures Wednesday at the UN's 2005 World Summit ....
Addressing the opening session of the UN's 2005 World Summit Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan , US President George Bush and other world leaders appealed for global action to prevent conflict, protect human rights and suppress...
The Bush administration Tuesday expressed disapproval of a measure aimed at regulating trade negotiations, and discouraged Senate members from adopting it. The measure, offered as an amendment to the annual appropriations bill for the Departments of State, Commerce and...
Rwanda's community-based genocide courts have charged 14,885 of their own judges with genocide, according to the department in charge of managing the system. The Gacaca courts were created three years ago to accelerate genocide trial...
In the third day of his Senate confirmation hearings Wednesday, US Chief Justice nominee John Roberts said that Congress has the right to counter decisions made by the Supreme Court, including the controversial ruling...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the sovereignty of Indian tribes Tuesday by ruling that federal courts do not have jurisdiction over decisions regarding who is entitled to membership in a tribe. The...
