Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal on Saturday rejected a request by leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for a full ballot-by-ballot recount of all votes cast in the July 2 presidential...
Inaccurate statements presented to the 9/11 Commission by senior Pentagon officials regarding the Sept. 11 attacks were not provided intentionally, but rather were the result of poor record-keeping, according to a newly-disclosed...
US-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch (HRW) Saturday called on Hezbollah to immediately stop launching rockets into civilian areas within Israel, saying their actions constitute "war crimes." The rights watchdog said Hezbollah's assertions...
A controversial new clemency law in Italy reducing some prison sentences by three years to cut down on jail overcrowding is facing criticism after some released prisoners returned to lives of crime this week....
The Minsk Central Court in Belarus Friday sentenced four independent election monitors for their affiliation with an "unregistered" organization which infringed on citizens' rights. The four were members of the Partnership monitoring group, which had received...
Two days before the 61st anniversary of the first US atomic bombing of Japan , the Hiroshima District Court in Japan ruled Friday that 41 survivors of the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and...
The Vermont Supreme Court ruled Friday that Vermont civil union laws govern a child custody battle between a now-separated lesbian couple who were legally joined in a civil union in Vermont,...
A US military prosecutor said in closing arguments at an Article 32 hearing Friday that four US soldiers should face court-martial for violating the laws of war by setting several Iraqi detainees free after a...
League of United Latin American Citizens, et. al. vs. Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, et. al., United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, August 4, 2006 [redrawing the boundaries of Texas's 23rd Congressional District to...
S & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department EWCA Civ 1157, August 4, 2006, Supreme Court of Judicature, Court of Appeal [upholding a High Court decision per Mr. Justice Sullivan that nine Afghanistan nationals responsible for...