The major political parties in Serbia have reached an agreement on the text of a draft constitution after weeks of negotiations, Local Government and Administration Minister Zoran Loncar said Friday. Although parliament is scheduled to consider...
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In his first major speech to parliament since taking office last week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe followed through on a promise to make amending the country's pacifist constitution a priority. The constitution...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told a gathering of legal scholars Friday that the Constitution "provides the courts with relatively few tools" to review presidential decisions about the military and foreign policy in wartime...
A state trial court judge in Boston ruled Friday that two women from Rhode Island may marry in Massachusetts despite the Commonwealth's 1913 statute forbidding the marriage of couples who can't legally wed in their...
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak said Friday that the military commissions bill approved by the US Senate Thursday could lead to abuses because it does not...
US District Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. ruled Thursday that 230,000 recipients of Medicare premium refunds issued in error be given an opportunity to apply for an exemption from repayment before the government can...
The US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has ruled ruled that a plaintiff is permitted to bring a class-action lawsuit against a carpet manufacturer under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act of...
Amnesty International accused Pakistan Friday of committing numerous human rights violations in support of the US-led "war on terror," including arresting terror suspects and holding them in secret locations until they can be sold...
Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday that it was "deeply worried" about the proposed construction of a 700-mile border fence between the US and Mexico, fearing it would "increase tension in...
A brother-in-law of the new chief judge in the Saddam Hussein genocide trial was shot and killed Friday in Baghdad. His nephew was seriously wounded in the same attack. Police were not certain whether the attack...
