Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has signed into law a bill requiring key industries, like mining and banking, to be controlled by local owners, a government newspaper reported on Sunday. Government officials...
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The Constitutional Court of Armenia Saturday rejected a challenge brought by an opposition candidate against the results of February's disputed presidential election, ruling that although polling discrepancies existed they did not affect the election's outcome....
Pakistani lawyers protested Sunday, continuing their call for the reinstatement of former Supreme Court justices who were ousted after President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule in November 2007. Sunday's protest kicks off a week of...
Democratic members of both the US House and Senate have criticized President George Bush's Saturday veto of a bill that would have prohibited the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from using waterboarding [JURIST...
The military government of Myanmar on Saturday rejected a suggestion by UN special envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari that the upcoming May referendum on a new constitution for the country...
Chinese prosecutors plan to proceed to trial against human rights activist Hu Jia and the trial could begin within a month, a defense lawyer for Hu said Saturday. Hu was formally charged last month with inciting subversion of state...
China's Supreme People's Court overturned 15 percent of death sentences imposed by lower courts during 2007, the president of the Supreme Court's criminal law chamber said in a Saturday China News report . Huang Ermei...
Bolivia's National Electoral Court on Friday blocked a national referendum on the country's new draft constitution which was to take place on May 4. The new constitution, supported by Bolivian President Evo Morales [official website,...
US President George W. Bush said in his weekly radio address Saturday that he has vetoed an intelligence funding bill that would restrict CIA interrogators to using only interrogation techniques explicitly authorized by...
US District Judge Reggie B. Walton of the District of Columbia on Friday held former USA Today reporter Toni Locy in contempt of court and ordered her to personally pay a daily fine for continuing to...
