The United Nations is expecting a large turn-out for Saturday's Iraqi constitution referendum , including in areas dominated by Sunni Arabs who have voiced opposition to the charter. The UN's top global election...

Indonesia moved the three masterminds behind the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings to a higher security jail Tuesday to wait out their time on death row, just one day before the third anniversary of the...

Abimael Guzman , founder of Peru's Shining Path guerilla movement, told a Peruvian court Monday that he is not a terrorist, and instead labeled himself a "revolutionary combatant." Guzman is facing a retrial on...

Indonesian police said Tuesday that they have arrested a man identified simply as "Hasan" in connection with the October 1 Bali bombings , the first arrest in the case. Hasan shared a rented house in Bali with the...

The Texas State Library and Archives Commission made public Monday over 2,000 pages of official correspondence and personal notes from US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers . The documents, which cover 1995 to...

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Sami-al-Leithy , an Egyptian national transferred to Egyptian custody earlier this month , has told Egyptian television that he was tortured by guards at the US military camp. Leithy,...

The Peruvian Constitutional Court has announced that former president Alberto Fujimori is barred from running in Peru's 2006 presidential election . Court President Javier Alva Orlandini said Sunday that the...

Following up on an report earlier today in JURIST's Paper Chase, Shiite and Kurdish officials continued last-minute talks Monday with Sunni leaders trying to agree on revised consensus language for the proposed Iraqi constitution to be...

A member of Iraq's De-Baathification Committee announced Monday that arrest warrants have been issued for former Iraqi defense minister Hazem Shaalan and 13 other former defense minister officials. Shaalan was defense minister under former interim...

Leading Monday's states brief, the Ohio Supreme Court unanimously ruled today that grandparent visitation can be awarded over the wishes of the child's parents as Ohio law requires courts to balance the best interests of the child...