Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday that Russia will not raise the issue of withdrawing from the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty when it meets with other CFE Treaty signatories in Vienna next week. Lavrov's statement comes amid tension between the US and Russia over US plans to locate parts of a [...]

France's practice of expelling non-citizens accused of links to violent extremism lacks sufficient procedural safeguards and undermines human rights , according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch . The report found that the current French policies allow the expulsion or deportation of a suspect once an initial decision has been reached in [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, president of the National Lawyers Guild, says that while the Bush administration may attempt to fix the procedural problem that resulted in the recent dismissal of US military commission cases against two Guantanamo detainees on the basis that they were not "unlawful" enemy combatants, [...]

The US House of Representatives passed two resolutions Tuesday intended to speed up the House's internal investigation of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) , who was indicted this week for allegedly accepting $500,000 in bribes. John Boehner (R-OH) proposed a resolution requiring the House Ethics Committee to report on whether the charges against Jefferson are severe [...]

The government of Myanmar announced plans Tuesday to reconvene negotiations on a new constitution for a final session next month. The national constitutional drafting convention, tasked with creating guidelines for a more democratic constitution, has been on hold since December 2006. The country's military regime announced the plan after being criticized by the West for [...]

A US federal judge extended a temporary restraining order Tuesday, blocking the Texas town of Farmers Branch , a suburb of Dallas, from enforcing a law that would bar landlords from renting apartments to most illegal immigrants. The restraining order will be in effect until June 19, when Judge Sam Lindsay plans to rule on [...]

A German state court Tuesday upheld a ban on religious headscarves in public schools and affirmed the right of a school not to employ a teacher who said she would be unable to follow that law. The teacher argued the law was discriminatory and violated religious freedom. In upholding the law and finding the headscarf [...]

Three relatives of a Chinese-American engineer convicted earlier this year of conspiring to smuggle sensitive naval intelligence data to China have pleaded guilty to related charges as part of a plea agreement . Appearing before a judge of the US District Court for the Central District of California , Tai Mak, brother of former Power [...]

Thailand's interim-government Monday lifted a ban on political activities that had been in place since the 2006 bloodless coup , which will allow the dissolved political party Thai Rak Thai (TRT) to reform. The ban, which was lifted by Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont and his cabinet, will have to be backed by legislation passed in [...]

The Durban High Court in South Africa granted an execution order Tuesday allowing the country's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to seek documents obtained by the Mauritius government which are believed to evidence meetings between former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma and arms manufacturer Thint. Prosecutors are considering charging Zuma with corruption for allegedly receiving [...]