The European Union has given software giant Microsoft until the end of May to comply with its antitrust order or face punitive sanctions, officials for both organizations said Monday. The dispute...

Following up on a morning report in JURIST's Paper Chase, Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered the Guardian Council to reconsider a decision to reject all reformist candidates running for the presidency. Specifically, Ayatollah...

Middle East spokeswoman for Amnesty International Nicole Choueiry expressed the group's opposition Monday to a recent announcement from Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari that the death penalty would be retained in Iraq and that the...

In a 7-2 decision the US Supreme Court ruled Monday that it is unconstitutional to force capital murder defendants to appear before juries in shackles. The majority said that viewing a prisoner in shackles would be too...

An appeals court for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Monday set aside the life sentence of Juvenal Kajelijeli , convicted in 2003 of genocide and incitement to commit genocide, and converted it to 45 years with...

In a commencement address at Pace Law School Sunday, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan's Chef de Cabinet Mark Malloch Brown referred to the US as an "ungainly giant" that prefers to play by its...

Republican Dino Rossi is challenging the 2004 election victory of Democratic Washington Governor Christine Gregoire , the closest statewide election in history. Rossi, who won the first count by 261 votes and a machine recount by...

The US Supreme Court said Monday it will decide an unsettled issue of abortion law: the standard to apply when judging the constitutionality of abortion restrictions. That issue and the issue of whether a health exception should...

Staff Sgt. Shane Werst's military trial is set to start Monday in the shooting death of Iraqi detainee Naser Ismail. Werst was charged in November 2004 after a soldier in his squad reported that Werst shot Ismail,...

A military policeman has pled guilty to assault and two counts of making a false statement in the 2002 beating death of an Afghan prisoner . In a plea bargain Spc. Brian E. Cammack also agreed to...