New York City agreed on Friday to pay $150 each plus legal fees totaling about $215,000 to 108 protestors arrested during the Republican National Convention and held after a judge ordered their release. Lawyers for the protestors claimed that the city intentionally violated an order issued for their release on September 2, 2004. While this [...]

A spokesman for Argentinian cardinal Jorge Bergoglio , deemed by observers to be one of the leading contenders to succeed Pope John Paul II in the Vatican conclave that begins April 18, said Saturday that allegations of Bergoglio's involvement in the 1976 kidnapping of two Jesuit priests by the military government then in power were [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Saturday granted ex-Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj provisional release for a short time to enable him to attend his brother’s funeral and post-funeral ceremonies. Enver Haradinaj, a student as Pristina University, was killed in an ambush in western Kosovo Friday in what may have been a drug-related [...]

In an effort to bolster support for UN ambassador nominee John Bolton , the State Department Friday released endorsements and letters of support for Bolton from former secretaries of state, ambassadors and senior government officials. The endorsements come two days after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee decided to delay its vote on his nomination after [...]

Foreign ministers from European Union countries expressed alarm Saturday about growing resistance in France to the proposed European constitution . A new poll released Saturday that was conducted after Thursday's TV pitch by French President Jacques Chirac shows that 56% of French voters plan to vote "No" in a referendum May 29th to decide whether [...]

President Lucio Gutierrez of Ecuador declared a state of emergency in the capital Quito late Friday and dissolved the Ecuador Supreme Court . The drastic measures announced in a surprise national television address came after three days of protests in the streets of Quito, which Gutierrez blames on unpopular Supreme Court judges. Rather than quell [...]

American and British officials have rejected assertions made by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan that the US and UK governments share blame with the UN for oil scandals involving Saddam Hussein's regime. Speaking in New York late this week Annan said that most of the money illegally pocketed by Hussein came from smuggling operations outside [...]

Review of Formation Issues Regarding the Department of Education's Fiscal Year 2003 Contract with Ketchum, Inc. for Media Relations Services, April 15, 2005 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Records released Friday by the Florida Department of Children and Families pursuant to a Thursday court order revealed no evidence that Terri Schiavo had been abused or exploited by either her husband Micheal Schiavo or her parents Robert and Mary Schindler. The agency investigated 89 complaints from as early as 2001 alleging that Schiavo was [...]

Still at Risk: Diplomatic Assurances No Safeguard against Torture, Human Rights Watch , April 15, 2005 . Excerpt: There is substantial evidence that in the course of the global "war on terrorism," an increasing number of governments have transferred, or proposed sending, alleged terrorist suspects to countries where they know the suspects will be at [...]