French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder agreed Saturday that ratification votes on the EU Constitution must go on, despite last week's devastating rejections of the charter in France ...
AP is reporting that Switzerland voters approved a referendum Sunday that will make the nation part of the EU passport-free zone established under the 1985 Schengen Treaty ....
A UN spokesman has condemned the Zimbabwe government's mass evictions and arrests of nearly 200,000 citizens living and trading in street dwellings as "gross human rights violations" and urged an end to the actions. In a statement...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that federal inmates in western states within its jurisdiction may challenge their sentences. The case, United States v. Ameline , follows the US Supreme Court ruling earlier this...
Chile's National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture, known familiarly as the Valech Commission, released a new report Wednesday indicating that children under the age of 12 were tortured during the rule of former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet...
A lawyer for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks said Wednesday that he has secured opinions from several international lawyers concluding that the US government's terror-related charges against Hicks have no foundation in international law. Hicks,...
US District Judge Tom S. Lee ruled Wednesday that Mississippi's law restricting abortions performed after the first-trimester violates the Fourteenth Amendment. The Jackson Women's Health Organization challenged a July 1, 2004 amendment to Mississippi Code § 41-75-1 ...
Following a series of delays, Israel's Cabinet Sunday approved the release of 400 Palestinian prisoners. Cabinet members voted 18-3 to approve the release, which is the second phase of the 900 Palestinian prisoners negotiated as part of February 8...
The Illinois Senate voted Saturday to ban the sale of violent or sexually explicit video games to minors. The Safe Games Act , would punish sales clerks who knowingly sell adult video games to minors. A seller could defend...
The Texas Senate Saturday approved Senate Bill 60 , which would give jurors in capital murder cases the option of sentencing a defendant to life in prison without parole instead of death. Currently, Texas leads US states in the...
