Pakistan's Supreme Court Saturday rejected a declaration of emergency rule issued by President Pervez Musharraf earlier in the day after paramilitary troops and police blocked off the Supreme Court building with...
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Pakistan high court battles Musharraf over emergency rule as constitution suspended
Alaska high court strikes down state abortion consent law
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Yahoo! exec apologizes for giving Congress false information on China data handover
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Schumer, Feinstein support for Mukasey could push nominee through committee
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Federal judge rules Rice, other US officials must testify in AIPAC espionage case
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FCC files Supreme Court appeal in expletives case
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UN rights panel condemns Algeria for continuing violations
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ICJ schedules hearings in France-Djibouti dispute over judge’s death
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Israel lobbyists spying case testimony ruling [US DC]
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Amnesty urges no transfer of genocide suspects to Rwanda
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The Alaska Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Parental Consent Act, a state law requiring parental consent before pregnant teens under the age of 17 can have an abortion, violates the teens' constitutional right to...
Yahoo! General Counsel Michael Callahan apologized to members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Friday for failing to clarify his testimony before the committee regarding Yahoo's involvement in providing information to the Chinese government about Shi...
US senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Ca) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Friday that they would support the nomination of Michael Mukasey as US attorney general, according to preliminary reports. Their endorsements in combination...
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other senior administration officials must testify about whether they shared classified national defense information with two American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobbyists, a federal judge ruled [opinion,...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Friday asked the US Supreme Court to review a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York vacating an FCC determination [FCC...
The UN Human Rights Committee expressed concern Friday over continuing human rights violations in Algeria. In its 2007 report on the North African country, the Committee flagged massacres, torture, rape and...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague announced Friday that hearings in a case involving France and Djibouti will begin January 21, 2008. The dispute between the two countries...
United States of America v. Steven J. Rosen, and Keith Weissman, US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, November 2, 2007 [ruling that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other senior administration officials must testify whether they...
Amnesty International Friday urged governments worldwide not to transfer genocide suspects to Rwanda until fair trials there can be guaranteed. The human rights group is concerned about the Rwandan justice system's fairness and impartiality with respect to...
