Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the left wing party Partido de la Revolucion Democratica (PRD) announced Monday that he will challenge recent election results in court . He claimed to have evidence showing that Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico’s ruling party, Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) , bought votes by distributing 1.8 million [...]

A Ukrainian court in the city of Kharkiv on Tuesday ruled that the tax evasion trial of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko would be delayed until July 23 due to Tymoshenko’s inability to attend for health reasons. Tymoshenko, 51, has denied any wrongdoing in the tax evasion case but has stated she is not well [...]

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia on Tuesday closed its Russian version of the site in protest of a controversial Internet regulation bill to be considered by the State Duma this week. The bill, which gives the Russian government the ability to completely block access to certain websites, is described by its authors as a means of [...]

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert was acquitted of two major counts of corruption but found guilty of a third lesser charge on Tuesday in the culmination of a three-year trial. In a 700-page ruling three senior judges of a Jerusalem court rejected the prosecution’s key accusations that as a cabinet minister and Jerusalem’s mayor [...]

The Russian Duma on Tuesday ratified an agreement with the US related to adoption of Russian children by Americans. In a 244-96-2 vote, the nation’s legislature agreed to ratify the agreement a year after the two countries agreed to sign. Russian officials have reported the abuse and killings of Russian children by adoptive US parents, [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says the theory that self-executing treaties are the only type of international law that is binding on states is based on an incorrect, revisionist account of US legal history…

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on Tuesday defended the 500 billion euro (USD $632 billion) European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the fiscal pact before the nation’s Constitutional Court . He warned the court not to delay the country’s signing of the two fiscal pacts which could lead to market turmoil. A postponement in signing the [...]

A federal hearing officer has recommended that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in Chicago uphold its initial decision rejecting an Indiana state law that denies Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood of Indiana (PPIN) and other organizations providing abortion services. A CMS officer found last June that the denial of funds violated federal [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of South Carolina on Monday declined to lift an injunction against South Carolina’s controversial immigration law , despite the recent US Supreme Court decision striking down most of the model Arizona immigration law . In light of the Supreme Court ruling in Arizona v. United [...]

The Egyptian parliament convened Tuesday in a brief session despite a court order dissolving the entire parliament. The session only lasted for five minutes but was still enough to deepen the tension between the newly elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) . Tuesday’s session was initiated by [...]