Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Friday in a statement that after the Senate completes deliberations next week on a highway bill he will put forward the hitherto-blocked nominations of Judges Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown for seats on the federal appeals bench, forcing a showdown with Democrats. He also indicated that if all [...]

Nine more people were killed in spreading anti-US riots across Afghanistan Friday despite new US assurances that American authorities would not tolerate disrepect for the Koran at Guantanamo Bay or anywhere else and Pentagon insistence that the reported desecretion of the Muslim holy book never happened at the detention camp and that Afghan rioting earlier [...]

The UK government announced Friday that it will propose new laws to combat fraudulent postal voting, a problem that arose in the recent national election when fraudulently-requested postal ballots prevented some voters from voting in person and the secrecy of the balloting process was called into question. The Queen is expected formally to call for [...]

A leading Pakistan daily reported Friday that 40 detainees released from US detention at Guantanamo Bay have been held without charges at Rawalpindi's Adiala prison for the past eight months. Pakistani law currently allows the detention of "Indian agents" in the country for a full year before bringing them to trial. The Pakistani government has [...]

As anticipated , Russian prosecutors Friday announced plans to bring new charges of money laundering against Mikhail Khodorkovsky , former CEO of second-largest Russian oil firm Yukos , and his business partner Platon Lebedev. Khodorkovsky is currently awaiting the expected May 16 verdict in his trial on charges of fraud and tax evasion, for which [...]

At least 12 people were killed Friday when thousands of people took to the streets of the eastern Uzebekistan city of Andijan to protest the highly publicized and controversial trial for extremism of 23 Muslim businessmen. Over 2,000 government prisoners were set free when militants stormed a high security prison and other key government buildings, [...]

Recently-demoted {JURIST report] Abu Ghraib commander Colonel Janis Karpinski , formerly a reserve Brigadier General, says that she is being discriminated against and that evidence exists that top ranking officials should be held responsible for the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. In an ABC television interview aired Thursday night on Nightline she blamed a ranking officer, [...]

Recent UN Security Council resolutions setting up sanctions against Sudan and referring criminal actions in Darfur to the International Criminal Court have led to protests and heightened tensions in Darfur, according to UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Hedi Annabi, briefing the UN Security Council Thursday. In his monthly report on Sudan he also told the [...]

Mexico has announced plans to oppose recent measures under the Real ID Act signed into law Wednesday as part of an appropriations package making it harder for immigrants to get state IDs and drivers licenses and authorizing the extension of US border walls near San Diego. Speaking Thursday, Mexican President Vicente Fox did not say [...]

The Arizona State Legislature voted Thursday to approve a new bill tightening immigration laws in the state for the thousands of illegal immigrants who enter the state from Mexico annually. The bill restricts benefits that immigrants can receive, and prohibits illegals from attending adult education classes, receiving child care assistance, or having in-state tuition status [...]