Thousands of Nepalese pro-democracy protesters marched toward Kathmandu Sunday despite an all-day curfew that was imposed on the city and surrounding areas last week. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators and several injuries were reported. Large demonstrations and clashes with police resulting in injuries to several hundred protestors in Kathmandu itself occurred [...]

A US federal prosecutor said Friday that proceeding with a US trial of former Russian nuclear energy minister Yevgeny Adamov on charges of fraud, money laundering, and tax evasion for diverting to his own use as much as $9 million in US aid earmarked for security improvements at Russian nuclear plants would be "pointless." Adamov [...]

Bancoult v. McNamara, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, April 21, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Libyan retrial of five Bulgarian nurses accused of infecting over 400 patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus is scheduled to begin on May 11 in Tripoli, Bulgaria’s foreign ministry announced Saturday. In December Libya’s Supreme Court overturned previous convictions against the nurses and a Palestinian doctor, which had led to the six being [...]

A presidential doctor in Indonesia Saturday declared former dictator General Suharto still unfit to stand trial, as he suffers from permanent brain damage and cannot have a logical conversation. Recently renewed efforts to have Suharto stand trial on corruption charges prompted Dr. Marjo Subiandono, a Brigadier General, to re-examine Suharto to see if he showed [...]

Iraq President Jalal Talabani formally designated hardline Shiite politician Jawad al-Maliki to form a new government Saturday, giving him 30 days to present his Cabinet to Parliament for approval. Shiites nominated al-Maliki on Friday after outgoing Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari gave up his bid for another term. The move ends months of political deadlock between [...]

An Italian appeals court on Saturday certified the final Senate votes in Italy’s disputed April 9-10 election , confirming a narrow two-seat majority for Romano Prodi in the upper house of the Italian parliament. The widely expected certification of votes cast by Italians living overseas confirms the outcome of the election announced Wednesday by the [...]

Nepalese security forces fired rubber bullets and live rounds on tens of thousands of pro-democracy protestors in Kathmandu Saturday, injuring many demonstrators as they marched toward the palace of King Gyanendra just one day after his pledge to restore democracy to the country was rejected as inadequate by the seven-party political alliance that has been [...]

Shirin Ebadi , the Iranian human rights lawyer and activist who won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize , said Friday that Iran would defend itself against any American attack, insisting at a Paris press conference that "We will defend our country till the last drop of blood." Ebadi, a critic of the Iranian government for [...]

The US Department of Justice signed off on a new Georgia law Friday that will require voters to present a valid photo ID when they vote in elections. Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue initially approved the bill in January after its passage by the Georgia state legislature , but under the federal Voting Rights Act , [...]