A petition was filed in a Pakistani court Wednesday challenging the pardon of Interior Minister Rehman Malik by President Asif Ali Zardari . The challenge alleges that under Article 45 of the Pakistan Constitution , presidential pardons can only be sought after all other legal remedies have been exhausted. Zardari issued the pardon on Tuesday [...]

Four suspected members of armed Basque separatist group ETA were arrested Thursday in France, including suspected ETA leader Mikel Kabikoitz Carrera Sarobe. The officers raided a residential block of the French city of Bayonne and arrested Sarobe along with two Spanish accomplices. Sarobe, a Spanish national, is alleged to be the military commander of the [...]

A member of the newly formed UK coalition government indicated Thursday that the extradition of alleged hacker Gary McKinnon to the US will be delayed. Home Secretary Theresa May considered an adjournment request from McKinnon's legal team and agreed to delay a scheduled judicial review in order to determine if he is medically fit for [...]

The US Department of Defense announced on Thursday that US Forces-Afghanistan has launched an investigation into allegations that a "small number" of soldiers are responsible for the unlawful deaths of three civilians in Afghanistan. The Army's Criminal Investigation Command began the investigation earlier this month after receiving credible information from the soldiers' unit. No charges [...]

The Legislative Council of the Parliament of New South Wales on Thursday voted 26-3 to end further debate on a bill to ban the wearing of the burqa and other face veils in public. The bill , proposed by Christian Democrat Fred Nile , would have banned the wearing of the burqa in Australia's most [...]

The Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus on Wednesday released the 2010 International Piracy Watch List naming China, Russia, Canada, Spain, and Mexico as the worst countries for protecting copyrighted information. The bipartisan caucus also released a list of the top websites hosted overseas providing unauthorized access to copyrighted material. The report stressed the risk posed to [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Dave Sidhu, founding director of the Discrimination and National Security Initiative (DNSI) and a fellow at the Pluralism Project at Harvard University, says that the soon-likely-to-be-complete domination of the US Supreme Court by graduates of two Ivy League American law schools is cause for considerable concern, despite elite contentions to the contrary… [...]

Kristine Long, Pitt Law '11, attended a lecture held by Vjosa Osmani, Pitt Law L.L.M '05 and advisor to the President of Kosovo on Legal and International Affairs… A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend a lecture on Kosovo's path to independence and the legal issues currently facing the country. At the [...]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday banned all UN employees from using cellular devices while driving in an effort to take the prohibition against cell phone use global. Ban is teaming up with US Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, US Ambassador Susan Rice , and Jennifer Smith, president and co-founder of a national advocacy group, [...]

The government of Thailand on Wednesday imposed a curfew on Bangkok and other areas of the country in response to violence that erupted when the leader of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship , also known as the red shirts , announced an end to the two-month long conflict in Bangkok and surrendered to [...]