Leaders of the US House of Representatives have decided to move forward with a vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment , which would amend the US constitution to ban same-sex marriage, despite a failed vote on the Senate floor in June. As with the Senate vote, the House vote on Tuesday is expected to fall [...]

British officials from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have decided not to prosecute any individual police officers for the death of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot and killed by London police last year after the July London bombings . CPS said there is "insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction [...]

Saddam Hussein and three co-defendants have entered their tenth day of a hunger strike protesting the lack of security for defense lawyers in their trial, US military spokesman Lt. Col. Keir-Kevin Curry said Monday. Hussein began the hunger strike in protest of trial court procedures and the killings of three defense lawyers, which the defendants [...]

The United States will not help Germany investigate the alleged abduction of Khaled el-Masri , a Lebanese born German citizen who claims that the US Central Intelligence Agency seized him in Macedonia in 2003 in an instance of extraordinary rendition , the German Justice Ministry said Sunday. El-Masri has sued the CIA in the United [...]

Israel is using "internationally prohibited weapons against civilians" in Lebanon as the country faces "real annihilation," according to a statement from Lebanon Information Minister Ghazi Aridi Sunday after an emergency cabinet meeting. Lebanese media reports state that Israel used phosphorus incendiary bombs and vacuum bombs that suck up air and facilitate building collapses. The use [...]

JURIST Guest Columnists Amy Ross of the University of Georgia Department of Geography and Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK), say that as the Ugandan government starts peace talks with the notorious Lord's Resistance Army and holds out a promise of amnesty for leader [...]

Mexican leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , who lost the July 2 presidential election by 0.6 percent of the vote to conservative Felipe Calderon , asked supporters Sunday to begin a campaign of "peaceful civil resistance" to bring about a manual recount of the election. Without specifying what supporters should do to facilitate [...]

Ek Choeun, also known as Ta Mok has slipped into a coma in a Phnom Penh hospital. His lawyer has told reporters he could die this week and is unlikely to survive until the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal begins holding trials next year. The one-legged Ta Mok, formerly a zone secretary and central committee member [...]

NAACP leaders say that at least 1,000 members attending the organization's annual convention now underway in Washington, DC will go to Capital Hill this Wednesday to urge the Senate to renew portions of the Voting Rights Act that are soon to expire. NAACP President Bruce Gordon stated that "the NAACP is paying close attention" to [...]

L.K. Advani , leader of India's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) , said in a speech Sunday in Bhopal that the July 11 Mumbai train bombings were "a fallout of repealing" the country's Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) , set aside by the now-ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) when it came to power in 2004. [...]