Israeli Minister of Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs Natan Sharansky resigned Monday saying that Israel's upcoming withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is a mistake that will spawn more Palestinian violence. Sharansky has insisted that Israeli concessions must be matched by an equal effort towards Palestinian democratic reform. Despite his resignation, Sharansky plans to remain in Prime [...]

AP is reporting that, as anticipated , Pfc. Lynndie England has pleaded guilty to charges relating to her role in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. She becomes the seventh low-level guard to plead guilty for maltreatment of Iraqi detainees at the Baghdad facilty. 6:30 PM ET – KCEN-TV in central Texas has a video [...]

US Army AR15-6 investigative report regarding the March 4 incident at a traffic control point in Baghdad resulting in the death of one Italian and the wounding of two others, released April 30, 2005 . Excerpt: Recommend that no disciplinary action be taken against any Soldier involved in the incident… Based upon previous successful coordination [...]

The Navajo Nation president Sunday veteod a proposal that would have banned same-sex marriages on the tribal reservation. The measure setting various restrictions on marriage, including a same-sex marriage ban, was unanimously approved last month by the Tribal Council , which said it was seeking to uphold family values. President Joe Shirley Jr. said same-sex [...]

AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has agreed to hear Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Insitutional Rights, 04-1152, considering whether universities may ban military recruiters from their campuses without having federal funding withdrawn under the Solomon Amendment . The US Third Circuit Court of Appeals blocked enforcement of the Amendment last year. [...]

The 2005 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference opened Monday in New York, with almost 190 nations gathering to review progress under the 1970 treaty . The conference comes as nuclear tensions with North Korea and Iran increased this week, with North Korea announcing it was ending negotiations over its nuclear program and Iran claiming it [...]

Guatemala will create a security unit to offer increase protection for 19 judges and six magistrates who have received death threats, according to a plan approved by the country's supreme court on Friday. The court announced the plan at the end of a week marred by violence, in which a judge was killed and a [...]

UN peacekeepers sexually abused Liberian women, according to an initial UN investigation announced on Friday. An initial investigation into allegations showed that as many as 20 reports of abuse could be substantiated, with the allegations ranging from peacekeepers having paid for sex to sexual abuse of minors in Liberia . A UN official said four [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Eugene Quinn of Syracuse University College of Law says that the US Supreme Court's pending decision in the Grokster case on file-sharing copyright infringement will likely involve a struggle with its landmark 1984 ruling on videotaping technology in Sony v. Universal Studios… On Tuesday, March 29, 2005, the United States Supreme Court [...]

Some 85 prisoners were released from US detention facilities in Afghanistan Sunday after being brought to the Afghan Supreme Court in Kabul, where they swore allegiance to the government in a short ceremony. The prisoners from the south of the country had been held at Bagram airbase and another US facility near the former Taliban [...]