Italian Minister of Culture Francesco Rutelli has demanded that the Getty Museum in Los Angeles return all the allegedly-looted Italian antiquities it is said to possess, and not just the 26 pieces of a total of 46...
Gory v. Kolver, Constitutional Court of South Africa, November 23, 2006 [ruling that same-sex partners in a permanent relationship have the same inheritance rights as married heterosexual couples, and that a surviving partner could therefore take by intestacy as a...
The South African Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that same-sex partners in a permanent relationship have the same inheritance rights as married heterosexual couples , and that a surviving partner could therefore take by intestacy...
International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Thursday that the tribunal could start its first formal trial in 2007 if judges confirmed charges against Congo militia leader Thomas Lubanga...
Baze v. Rees, Supreme Court of Kentucky, November 22, 2006 [ruling that the state's use of a three-drug lethal injection does not violate the constitution because the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment "does not require a complete absence of...
The European Commission announced Thursday that Microsoft had filed new technical documentation with it in a last-minute bid to comply with a March 2004 Commission antitrust ruling [text, PDF; background...
Some 25,000 Rwandans gathered in a sports stadium in the capital Kigale Thursday to protest a French judge's issuance of arrest warrants for nine top Rwandan officials on suspicion of involvement in the 1994 downing of the plane carrying...
Canadian Conservative Party Prime Minister Stephen Harper joined with Ontario Liberal Party Premier Dalton McGinty and Toronto Mayor David Mills Thursday to lay out the terms of proposed federal gun crime legislation being...
Pakistan's Senate Thursday approved a reformed rape law that allows rape cases to be tried in either secular or Islamic courts, reduces the evidentiary burden necessary for conviction, and substitutes a fine and five-year prison term for...
The European Commission's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party reported Thursday that the Belgium-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) violated European privacy laws when it released information about cross-border wire transfers by European...