Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday that Russia will not raise the issue of withdrawing from the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty when it meets with other CFE Treaty signatories in Vienna next week....
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France's practice of expelling non-citizens accused of links to violent extremism lacks sufficient procedural safeguards and undermines human rights , according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch . The report found that...
The US House of Representatives passed two resolutions Tuesday intended to speed up the House's internal investigation of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) , who was indicted this week for allegedly accepting $500,000 in...
The government of Myanmar announced plans Tuesday to reconvene negotiations on a new constitution for a final session next month. The national constitutional drafting convention, tasked with creating guidelines for a more democratic...
A US federal judge extended a temporary restraining order Tuesday, blocking the Texas town of Farmers Branch , a suburb of Dallas, from enforcing a law that would bar landlords from renting apartments to most...
A German state court Tuesday upheld a ban on religious headscarves in public schools and affirmed the right of a school not to employ a teacher who said she would be unable to follow that law....
Three relatives of a Chinese-American engineer convicted earlier this year of conspiring to smuggle sensitive naval intelligence data to China have pleaded guilty to related charges as part of a plea...
Thailand's interim-government Monday lifted a ban on political activities that had been in place since the 2006 bloodless coup , which will allow the dissolved political party Thai Rak Thai (TRT) [official website, in...
The Durban High Court in South Africa granted an execution order Tuesday allowing the country's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to seek documents obtained by the Mauritius government which are believed to evidence...
Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act , passed by the California State Assembly, June 5, 2007 . Read the full text of the bill. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
