The government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair is bracing for a legislative showdown in the House of Lords Thursday as the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Bill returns to the upper chamber for reconsideration. The legislation was amended in...

Summary of the Opinion on Unauthorized Outposts, former State Attorney Talia Sasson, submitted to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon March 8, 2005 [concluding that 105 Jewish outposts on the West Bank are illegal, and chronicling the development of illegal settlements...

Gun Control and Terrorism, Government Accountability Office report, January 2005, released March 8, 2005 . Read the full text of...

Iran's Supreme Court has lifted a ban that has kept reformist newspaper Neshat from publishing since 1999. The newspaper was shut down after it criticized the country's penal system, which is based on Islamic...

Federal lawmakers from Florida have introduced legislation that would allow federal courts to hear habeas petitions involving an incapacitated person whose life support is expected to be removed, allowing the parents of Terri Schiavo to challenge state court rulings...

Indonesia and East Timor's presidents agreed Wednesday to establish a commission to investigate human rights abuses that led to the deaths of more than 1,000 East Timorese in 1999. The Truth and Friendship Commission will be...

Florida Tuesday opened its case against Alliance Capital Management , the company charged with investing the state's employee pension fund in plunging Enron stock. The Florida State Board of Administration alleges gross negligence, breach of contract...

In a warning that could portend further legal trouble, Japan's Fair Trade Commission said Tuesday that computer chip manufacturer Intel should cease practices that violate Japan's Anti-Monopoly Act by pressuring Japanese companies to buy...

In a Supreme Court report to the National People's Congress, China's Chief Justice Xiao Yang said the Supreme People's Court would "further perfect second-instance judgments for criminal cases and death penalty review procedures." The government has suggested...

The vast majority of Tunisia's 1400 lawyers went on a one-day strike Wednesday to protest alleged police brutality last week when 200 police stormed a Tunis court to remove 50 lawyers gathered in opposition to an upcoming visit by...