Portugal will accept two or three Guantanamo detainees already cleared for release, Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado said in an interview Saturday. Amado indicated that the Portuguese Ministry of Internal Affairs...

Bermuda Premier Ewart Brown Saturday survived a vote of no confidence by Bermuda's lower house of parliament, the House of Assembly , which was seen as an attempt to punish Brown for accepting four Uighur Guantanamo...

A European Council summit meeting in Brussels concluded on Friday with a resolution to create a new European financial supervisory and monitoring system. The new system will seek to balance the need of...

A three-member independent commission established by the UN to investigate the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will begin its work on July 1, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon [official...

The US House of Representatives Friday approved four separate articles of impeachment against Judge Samuel Kent of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Kent is the...

Texas financier Allen Stanford appeared Friday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia , after being indicted on fraud and obstruction charges related to a $7 billion...

Presidency conclusion, Council of the European Union, June 19, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Presidency Conclusion...

The Irish government agreed Friday to hold another referendum on the European Union (EU) reform treaty, also known as the Lisbon Treaty , after EU leaders agreed to certain concessions . At a conference in...

The arrests of protesters in Iran may not conform with the law, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay said Friday, expressing concern over the increasing number of reported arrests . Classifying freedom...

A federal jury in the US District Court for the District of Minnesota found Thursday that a Minnesota woman had violated music copyrights and assessed damages at $80,000 per song for 24 songs, totaling $1.92 million. In...