Former Bosnian Serb general Vinko Pandurevic , wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for war crimes during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, has agreed to surrender to the UN war crimes...

WNBC in New York is reporting that US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has announced a compromise with Senate leaders on a federal legislative initiative to keep Terri Schiavo alive by allowing her case to be appealed to the...

Ibrahim Jaafari, Iraq's leading Shiite candidate for Prime Minister, said Saturday that he would introduce Sharia Islamic law and federalism if selected. Jaafari's Daawa party currently holds a majority of National Assembly seats...

The Hong Kong Bar Association Friday criticized the Hong Kong regional government's recent declaration that under the Hong Kong Basic Law the successor of a chief executive who steps down early shall serve out only the remainder...

Subpoenas of Michael and Terri Schiavo, House Government Reform Committee, March 18, 2005. Read the text of the subpoenas via Abstract Appeal. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

Saturday's Los Angeles Times reports that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan will propose significant changes to the organization at a General Assembly meeting Monday. According to a draft copy of Annan's scheduled Report on Larger Freedom [available on...

Former US attorney general John Ashcroft has accepted a part-time position as Distinguished Professor of Law and Government at Regent University , the Virginia Beach Christian graduate school headed by evangelist Pat Robertson [Regent University President...

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke has ordered a review of the British government's decision last year to downgrade cannabis from a regulatory B class to a C class, the same as anabolic steriods and...

Schiavo v. The Honorable George W. Greer, et al., United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Tampa Division, Judge James S. Moody, March 18, 2005 [ruling denying petition for temporary injunction and petition for a writ of...

US v. Platte; US v. Hudson; US v. Gilbert, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, March 17, 2005 . Excerpt:Of course, whenever...