Riot police and demonstrators clashed Saturday in the Belarus capital city of Minsk as thousands of citizens gathered again to protest alleged election fraud in last Sunday's presidential elections in which current President Alexander...
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The Nigerian government said Saturday that it would allow the transfer of ex-Liberia president and fugitive war crimes indictee Charles Taylor to Liberian authorities. According to a statement: "President Olusegun Obasanjo has today, 25 March, informed...
US District Judge Leonie Brinkema issued an order late Friday quashing a subpoena that had been issued for Transportation Security Administration lawyer Carla Martin in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui [JURIST news...
US Chief Justice John Roberts has appointed US District Judge and former Whitewater prosecutor John D. Bates to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to replace US District Judge James Robertson ,...
The US Supreme Court said Friday that it will rehear oral arguments for death penalty case Kansas v. Marsh so that Justice Samuel Alito can break...
The Hong Kong Law Reform Commission (HKLRC) on Friday released its proposals to embed greater safeguards in the executive order on covert surveillance operations made last year by Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen [official...
Abortion rights activists in South Dakota on Friday announced that they will seek a referendum that will overturn the state's newly-enacted abortion ban . The campaign , led by the South Dakota...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that US authorities have arrested Faheem Mousa Salam, a government contractor performing translation for Titan Corporation in Iraq, on bribery charges in Washington, DC. Salam, a naturalized...
Leading Friday's international brief, the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI) in Uganda has issued a report warning that the independence of the judiciary and the freedom of the press have been seriously impinged upon in the...
Fresh talks between French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and French trade union leaders over the new First Employment Contract (CPE) labor law ended in deadlock Friday with the government...
