Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's Saturday declaration of emergency rule is likely to end in two to three weeks, ruling Pakistan Muslim League party president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain told Pakistan's English newspaper Dawn Tuesday. Hussain said that Musharraf understands the consequences of an extended declaration of emergency, and that it was enacted reluctantly from the start. [...]

UN Special Envoy for Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari will meet with Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday, Gambari told diplomats during a one-hour briefing Wednesday. Gambari had originally proposed a meeting with both Suu Kyi and a member of the military government, but said that the junta rejected the idea. Gambari has met [...]

Former Illinois Governor George Ryan headed to federal prison Wednesday morning to serve a 6 1/2-year sentence on corruption charges after the US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Ryan's request to remain free on bail while he appeals his conviction, affirming the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Ryan made [...]

Ilham Nassir Ibrahim, et al., v. Titan Corporation, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, November 6, 2007 . Read the full text of the memorandum order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

John and Claire Tuepker v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Company, US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, November 6, 2007 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Mark Dean Schwab v. State of Florida, Supreme Court of Florida, November 7, 2007 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The trial of Serb nationalist leader and war crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj began Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . The prosecution in its opening statement told the court that Seselj incited atrocities through hateful speeches he made during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. Seselj is charged with three counts [...]

Interim report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, UN General Assembly, August 24, 2007 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Russian State Duma voted unanimously Wednesday in favor of a measure that would suspend the nation's responsibilities under the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty . The Russian government first threatened to temporarily withdraw from the treaty in June, amid tensions between the US and Russia over US plans for an anti-missile defense shield [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday upheld language used in homeowner insurance policies by State Farm Fire and Casualty, overturning a district court ruling that the policy language was ambiguous and consequently unenforceable. The three-judge circuit panel held that the policy's anti-concurrent causation clause clearly state that excluded losses – [...]