The National Parliament of East Timor voted Friday to further extend the country's state of emergency , which was set to expire Saturday, by an additional 30 days. Last week, the parliament extended the state of emergency in response to attacks against East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao . East [...]

The British House of Commons approved an order Thursday extending until March 2009 provisions of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 regarding control orders, which impose restrictions on uncharged terror suspects. The measure was approved by a margin of 267-60. The UK's counter-terrorism law ombudsman said in his third annual report Monday that individual control [...]

James Tobin , President Bush's 2004 campaign chairman for New England, was acquitted Thursday of federal telephone harassment charges for his alleged role in a 2002 phone-jamming scheme. In his ruling Thursday, US District Judge Steven McAuliffe said he was "constrained" by an earlier appeals court ruling overturning Tobin's previous conviction. Tobin was convicted and [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist John Cerone of New England School of Law, formerly a Human Rights Legal Advisor with the UN Mission in Kosovo, says that given the legal and moral complexity of the Kosovo situation, recent suggestions that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia is unlawful but may nonetheless be "justified" are problematic… From [...]

The US must do more to meet its obligations to fight racial discrimination under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination , UN rights experts from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) said Thursday in a scheduled session to review US compliance with the treaty. Committee [...]

French judges Thursday questioned a trader tied to the alleged French "rogue trader" Jerome Kerviel , who made $73 billion worth of unauthorized trades while working for French bank Societe Generale . The man, who worked for Societe Generale affiliate Fimat , was originally questioned by French authorities earlier this month and has since been [...]

Serbian demonstrators set fire to the US Embassy in Belgrade Thursday after a massive street demonstration that drew an estimated 150,000 people to protest Kosovo's weekend unilateral declaration of independence . The United States formally recognized Kosovo as a sovereign state on Monday, despite strong opposition from both the Serbian government and minority Kosovo Serbs. [...]

US President George W. Bush Thursday reiterated his call for Congress to extend the temporary Protect America Act , which expired on Saturday without an agreement in Congress on replacement legislation, and said he can foresee "no compromise" with Congressional Democrats on the issue of immunity for telecommunications companies from lawsuits related to their participation [...]

Pakistan’s two main opposition parties have agreed to form a coalition government and to work together towards the reinstatement of ousted Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry and other dismissed superior court judges, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif , head of the Pakistan Muslim League , and Asif Zardari , new leader of the [...]

Former Guantanamo Bay chief military prosecutor Col. Morris Davis told AP Thursday that he has agreed to appear as a defense witness in the military commission trial of Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan . In October 2007, Davis resigned from his position at Guantanamo Bay, saying that politics were interfering with the prosecutions process. In [...]