Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution Friday which would have imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe . The three other permanent members of the Security Council, the US, Britain and France, voted in favor of the sanctions, arguing that such measures were needed to respond to the repression and violence linked to Zimbabwe’s [...]

The Office of the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) filed a petition Friday asking the ICC to lift an indefinite stay on the trial of Congolese ex-militia leader Thomas Lubanga . The ICC had imposed the stay last month due to prosecutorial misconduct, concluding that Lubanga would be unable to receive a [...]

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have the authority to institute a "cap-and-trade" policy for controlling levels of soot and smog emissions. The Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) was intended to permanently cap emissions of sulfur dioxide and [...]

International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will seek a warrant to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir , according to statements made Friday by US State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack. Moreno-Ocampo is expected to present evidence of human rights crimes allegedly committed in the Sudanese region of Darfur . Sudanese Foreign Affairs Minister Al-Samani [...]

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday in Charron v. Amaral that couples married after the court's decision legalizing same-sex marriage cannot make claims for benefits they would have received had they been allowed to marry sooner. The plaintiff in the case, Michelle Charron, brought a medical malpractice suit against a group of doctors for [...]

Ali Khan : "The International Criminal Court (ICC) joins the crusade to defame Islam, demonize internal conflicts in Muslim nations, and prosecute Muslim leaders for crimes against humanity, rape, genocide, and other international crimes. The Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, holds evidence "on crimes committed in the whole of Darfur over the last five years." Ocampo will [...]

The UN said Friday that it had reached a "broad understanding" with Pakistan on logistical issues and questions of access to government officials central to a potential investigation into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto . UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met Thursday with Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi to discuss [...]

The Flemish Parliament approved the new EU reform treaty Friday, finalizing Belgian approval of the document, also known as the Treaty of Lisbon . Jose Manuel Barroso , the president of the European Commission , congratulated Belgium on its approval of the treaty in a statement released Friday. According to Barroso's statement, twenty-two European countries [...]

A judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Friday sentenced a former US Department of Defense (DOD) official to almost five years in prison for disclosing national defense information to Chinese agents. Gregg William Bergersen, an analyst at the DOD's Defense Security Cooperation Agency , pleaded guilty to conspiracy for [...]

A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit rejected a Bush administration appeal against a 2007 order requiring that White House visitor logs be released in compliance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) . The court held that it lacked jurisdiction to consider the appeal because the lower court had [...]