Israel released 29 Palestinian detainees and returned them to Gaza Tuesday, adding to Monday's return of 57 prisoners to the West Bank for a total of 86 prisoners released this week. The releases are...
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The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Kimbrough v. United States , 06-6330, in which the Court considered whether a district judge, in seeking to...
The South African Constitutional Court Tuesday dismissed the final appeal of businessman Schabir Shaik, a former business associate of former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma , who was seeking to have his...
American Historical Association, et al., v. National Archives and Records Administration, US District Court for the District of Columbia, October 1, 2007 [ruling that the National Archives cannot rely on an executive order by President George W. Bush that permits...
Jack Landman Goldsmith , former head of the US Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel and now a Harvard Law School professor, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday that he...
The Director of Administration of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) , the court established to try former Khmer Rouge leaders, agreed late Monday to make public the text of a controversial...
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said Monday that he plans to disband the Ecuadorean congress and rewrite the country's constitution . Correa's statement comes only a day after unofficial results in the...
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the US District for the District of Columbia ruled Monday that the National Archives cannot rely on an executive order by President George W. Bush that...
Former US Army Reserve Staff Sergeant Ivan "Chip" Frederick was released on parole Monday from a military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he was incarcerated for three years after pleading guilty to abusing prisoners...
Lawyers representing the opposition Pakistani Peoples Party filed new petitions at the Supreme Court of Pakistan Tuesday challenging President Pervez Musharraf's bid to run for another term in office. The opposition members argue that the...
