David Hicks , the Australian-born terror suspect held at Guantanamo Bay , told family members that conditions at the detention center have worsened in the wake of three detainee suicides in June, Hicks'...

France intends to grant residency papers to thousands of immigrant families with children in French schools, government officials said Thursday. Many children and their parents faced deportation at the end of the French school year after a deportation moratorium...

The new center-left government under Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi is considering granting citizenship to immigrants who have legally resided in Italy for five or more years, Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato said...

Tariq Aziz , the Iraqi deputy prime minister under Saddam Hussein's regime, has gone on hunger strike to protest the refusal of prison authorities to grant him access to his lawyer, a member of his...

US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad and Gen. George Casey , commander of US forces in Iraq, have promised an open investigation into the rape and murder of a young woman and her family in Mahmudiya [JURIST news...

The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday denounced recent Israeli military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and voted to approve a resolution calling on Israelis and Palestinians to refrain from...

Howard M. Engle MD et al. v. Liggett Group, Supreme Court of Florida, July 6, 2006 [rejecting a record-setting jury verdict that had awarded $145 billion in punitive damages in a class action challenge brought by smokers against tobacco companies...

Perdue v. O'Kelley, Supreme Court of Georgia, July 6, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

Former US Army soldier Steven Green pleaded not guilty Thursday in US District Court to rape and murder charges in connection with the death of an Iraqi woman and three of her relatives...

Daniel Hernandez v. Victor L. Robles , New York Court of Appeals, July 6, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in...