The government of Rwanda and the UN-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday resolved a dispute over the court's alleged hiring of genocide suspects by agreeing to improve information-sharing mechanisms and to conduct background checks on job applicants to avoid the problem in the future. The row erupted when the ICTR successfully pressed [...]

Mexican officials are willing to begin extraditing suspected drug lords held in Mexican custody to the US to face drug charges, Mexican President Vicente Fox said Tuesday at a press conference in New York. On Monday, alleged cartel mastermind Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix , who was the first major accused drug dealer to be extradited [...]

Canada's House of Commons on Tuesday voted 172-116 to approve a controversial softwood lumber trade agreement between Canada and the US that would end a two-decades old trade dispute between the two countries by removing punitive tariffs now levied against Canadian timber and refunding 80 percent of collected tariffs, or approximately $4 billion, back to [...]

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Tuesday defended US conduct in handling the Maher Arar case, saying that while the US did in fact deport the Canadian citizen, the US was "not responsible for his removal to Syria," and that if US officials had rendered Arar to Syria, they only would have done so if they [...]

Thai Army chief Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin , who led Tuesday's coup ousting the Thai civilian government , told reporters Wednesday that he will serve as acting prime minister and hopes to find a replacement prime minister and enact a temporary constitution within two weeks. Sondhi also said Thailand will hold a general parliamentary election in [...]

The Judicial Conference of the United States has approved policies requiring judges to disclose their sponsors when traveling to attend seminars, and to investigate financial conflicts of interest more closely. Under the first measure , nongovernmental sources who pay for judges to attend seminars must disclose their patronage on the Judicial Branch website and judges [...]

Lake v. Perdue, Superior Court of Georgia, September 19, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Crime in the United States 2005, Federal Bureau of Investigation, September 19, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Status of Muslim Rights in the United States 2006, Council on American Islamic Relations, September 19, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

US Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner (R-VA) expressed cautious optimism in a possible legislative compromise Tuesday after the White House sent to Capitol Hill new language for a military commissions bill, commenting that he thought an accord would be reached soon. The White House version of the bill differs in key respects from [...]