Iran is permitted to develop a civil nuclear program and its resumption of uranium processing does not violate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), a leading British lawmaker said Thursday. Labor Party MP Jeremy Corbyn ,...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Wednesday sentenced a former Rwandan mayor to 15 years in prison for his participation in the 1994 genocide that the Rwandan government estimates left at...

Message to the nation by King Gyanendra of Nepal, April 14, 2006 .English-language translation from eKantipur.com:Beloved Countrymen,On the occasion...

Convicted 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui took the witness stand for the second time in his sentencing trial Thursday and lambasted his court-appointed defense attorneys for failing to move the proceeding...

Leading Thursday's environmental law brief, the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court has ruled that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) has the authority to adopt stormwater rules...

AP is reporting that Nepal's King Gyanendra has called for general elections and has promised dialogue with the opposition. Opposition political parties have been staging pro-democracy protests for over a week, calling...

The majority of the provisions in the UK Terrorism Act 2006 took effect Thursday amidst criticism from rights groups that the measure stifles freedom of speech and will lead to the prosecutions of legitimate...

Egypt has released approximately 950 former militants from the Islamic group Gamaa Islamiya over the last several days, according to lawyers for the prisoners. Some had been held as long as 25 years. The government began small-scale...

Police in Nepal Thursday fired rubber bullets at a peaceful rally of lawyers in the capital Kathmandu, injuring four. Seventeen other lawyers were injured when police charged with batons. 72 lawyers were arrested in total. The lawyers were holding...

Women in Iraq had better quality of life and received more respect for their rights under Saddam Hussein's regime than the current system, according to a survey conducted by the Baghdad-based Woman Freedom Organization . According to the...