Mexico has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for assistance in stopping the Texas executions of five of its citizens, including Jose Ernesto Medellin , who is scheduled to be executed August 5. In hearings scheduled for Thursday, Mexico will ask the ICJ to rule on its request for provisional measures and to clarify [...]

The Swedish parliament Wednesday passed a controversial warrantless wiretapping law that gives the country's National Defence Radio Establishment broad authority to monitor international telephone and electronic communications passing through the country. The bill, which had been rejected Tuesday , passed by a narrow 143-138 margin after last-minute changes made by lawmakers. The changes included a [...]

The status of more than 1,000 protesters detained by Chinese authorities during March demonstrations in Tibet remains unknown, according to an Amnesty International report released Wednesday. About 370 of the protesters who surrendered to authorities and about 980 arrested in April after the protests have still not been released or charged . Amnesty officials also [...]

Canada classified the World Tamil Movement (WTM) as a terrorist organization Tuesday , according to comments by Canadian Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day . Day characterized the group as a front for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) , or "Tamil Tigers," stating that there was evidence linking the WTM to LTTE fund raising [...]

JURIST Guest Columnists Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham and Judge William S. Sessions say that the recent ruling by the US Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush not only restores the delicate balance of power between the three branches of government but ensures a meaningful judicial review of detentions that can separate detainees who are dangerous [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Tamir Moustafa of Simon Fraser University in Canada says that although the Egyptian government's recent extension of the emergency law may be the last in a string of renewals over the past half-century, this does not have pro-democracy activists dancing in the streets… Late last month, the Egyptian government extended its emergency [...]

Burundi military officials Wednesday announced the arrests of nearly 100 members of the Forces for National Liberation (FNL) , a Hutu separatist group engaged in an ongoing conflict with the Burundian government. The FNL denied accusations that the arrests were a government response to the alleged recruitment of new fighters. Those arrested were said to [...]

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that the state had settled with two law firms accused of defrauding the state pension system. For years the two firms, Girvin & Ferlazzo, PC and Hogan, Sarzynski, Lynch, Surowka & DeWind LLP , had arranged for some of their attorneys to be placed on the employment [...]

Bulgarian officials said Wednesday that they had frozen 10 National Road Infrastructure Fund projects worth almost 90 million euros ($137 million) in order to avoid possible sanctions for using the money inappropriately. The funds are mostly grants from the Phare program , an EU policy designed to aid countries' development before their accession to the [...]

US President George W. Bush vetoed the new Farm Bill for the second time on Wednesday, saying that the proposed legislation was fiscally irresponsible. The original version of the text sent to Bush for signature last month inadvertently omitted a section providing for foreign food aid. Bill supporters had said they would submit the bill [...]