Padilla v. Hanft, Brief of Petitioner for Writ of Certiorari, Supreme Court of the United States, October 27, 2005 [appeal by 'Dirty Bomb' suspect Jose Padilla asking the Court to limit the government's ability to hold him and other terror...

The Manipulation of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme, Independent Inquiry Committee, October 27, 2005 [finding that more than 2,000 companies around the world paid $1.8 billion in illegal kickbacks to the regime of Saddam Hussein in abusing the now defunct...

Reacting Thursday to the publication of the Volcker committee's final report on the UN oil-for-food scandal , UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the US State Department both emphasized the need to reform program oversight...

The Constitutional Court of Korea Thursday struck down a statute limiting the scope of medical advertising to statements on types of services offered, types of facilities, and number of employees. The content of hospital and clinic advertising...

The US Department of Justice Thursday endorsed the mergers of Verizon Communications with MCI and SBC Communications with AT&T , requiring both Verizon and SBC to lease to competitors unused or "dark" communications lines...

Kenya's debate over its draft constitution has erupted into violence, with supporters and opponents clashing in the streets in what has become an increasingly intense disagreement over a controversial document. Dozens were injured during rioting...

In a brief order issued Thursday, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied a request from Georgia to throw out a lower court injunction barring enforcement of the state's new voter identification law [JURIST...

A federal judge sitting in Baltimore Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by a group of lawyers seeking $24 million in legal fees for their work in the Microsoft antitrust cases , saying he did not have jurisdiction....

Lawyers for Sami Al-Arian , the former Florida college professor charged by the US government with aiding and abetting Palestinian terrorists, rested their case Thursday without calling a single witness to refute the five months of prosecution testimony....

Experts with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed concern over the fairness of the trial of 15 men in Uzbekistan charged with terrorism and precipitating the violent uprising in the town of Andijan [JURIST...