Three US Marines have been charged with assault in the village of Hamdania in April this year, according to a late Thursday report by AP, citing US military officials. The April 10 incident came to light during a military...
As a panel of three federal judges heard arguments Thursday about how to redraw Texas' 23rd Congressional District without diluting minority votes in violation of the Voting Rights Act , US Circuit Judge Patrick Higginbotham said Rep....
A group of Missouri voters lacking acceptable identification under a Missouri law that requires voters to show photo IDs at the polls filed a lawsuit Thursday, claiming the law could keep...
Texas Democratic Party v. Benkiser, US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, August 3, 2006 [ruling that Texas Republicans cannot remove former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay from the November Texas congressional ballot although he now lives in...
Fatal Strikes: Israel's Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon, Human Rights Watch, August 3, 2006 [report concluding that indiscriminate Israeli air and artillery strikes on Lebanese civilians in its campaign against Hezbollah cannot be systematically dismissed as accidents and calling...
Loi n° 2006-961 du 1er août 2006 relative au droit d'auteur et aux droits voisins dans la société de l'information, August 3, 2006 [among other things, allowing French regulators to force Apple Computer to make its iPod player compatible with...
Texas Republicans cannot remove former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay from the November congressional ballot, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday. Tina Benkiser,...
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Thursday accepted the nomination of political rival Viktor Yanukovych to serve as the country's prime minister, ending weeks of speculation that Yushchenko's rejection of the nomination...
North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley Thursday signed into law a bill establishing an innocence inquiry commission which will review appeals by inmates who claim they have been wrongly convicted. The North Carolina Innocence...
US-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday that indiscriminate Israeli air and artillery strikes on Lebanese civilians cannot be systematically dismissed as accidents and called several of Israel's attacks "war crimes" in a...