Lawyers for former vice-presidential Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby said in a court filing Wednesday that Libby told a grand jury two years ago that President Bush and Vice President Cheney had authorized him to released previously classified information in response to criticism of the Iraq war, but not the identity of CIA [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Thursday expressed shock and dismay at the use of violence and arbitrary detention by police and security forces in the ongoing unrest over pro-democracy protests in Nepal . Arbour issued a statement calling on the Nepalese government to reign in police officials and reminding the government [...]

US Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has called for a quick return to the debate on immigration reform when the Senate reconvenes on April 25. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) , Reid noted the large demonstrations that have occurred throughout the US in recent weeks and called Frist's handling [...]

Prosecutor v. Vladimir Kovacevic, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, April 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the decision . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Leading Thursday's international brief, the US and UK representatives to the UN Security Council introduced a list of four individuals in Sudan that they allege have taken active steps to frustrate the attempted peace process in the Darfur region . The list includes a call for sanctions to be imposed against the individuals , including [...]

Judges in Italy Thursday began examining some 43,000 problematic ballots to see whether including them in official returns might change the result of a national parliamentary election held April 9-10 that seems to have given former center-left prime minister Romano Prodi a narrow victory over current conservative incumbent Silvio Berlusconi . Official results from Italy's [...]

Vladimir Kovacevic , a Serbian commander charged with war crimes for his part in the 1991 attack on the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, has been declared unfit to stand trial because of mental illness by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . After an initial appearance at which he was unable to enter [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that instead of censuring the president, Congress should restrain the foreign excesses of the Bush presidency and restore respect for international law by cutting off funds for any US military adventure in Iran… However great my admiration for Sen. Russ Feingold [...]

MB, Re EWHC 1000 (Admin), UK High Court, April 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Transcript of cockpit voice recording from United Airlines Flight 93, hijacked September 11, 2001; introduced as prosecution evidence in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, April 12, 2006. Read the full text of the transcript . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.