An appeal was filed Saturday in the case of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor convicted and sentenced to death by a Libyan court for knowingly infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children,...
US Marine Lance Cpl. Robert B. Pennington was sentenced to eight years in military prison Saturday for his role in the death of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamdania [USMC timeline; JURIST...
An Idaho State Senate committee Monday passed a bill requiring written parental consent for minors to get abortions . In a 7-2 vote, the State Affairs Committee approved Senate Bill No. 1082 , which amends,...
The Indiana State Senate voted 39 to 10 Monday to pass a state constitutional amendment defining marriage to be between a man and a woman. While same-sex marriage is already illegal in the state...
The New Mexico House of Representatives passed a bill Monday that would abolish the state death penalty . HB 190 proposes replacing the death penalty with life imprisonment without possibility of release...
Prosecutors in the ongoing genocide trial of Saddam-era officials before the Iraqi High Tribunal introduced a videotape Sunday of executions and destruction of Kurdish homes during the "Anfal" campaigns [HRW backgrounder;...
A referendum on Portugal's strict abortion laws indicated Sunday that a majority of voters support loosening the current law , but turnout was likely too low to give the decision legal force. Exit polls from...
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso urged swift resolution on the issue of the European constitution at a press conference with Polish President Lech Kaczynski Saturday....
Portugal is the latest country to open an investigation into alleged stopovers of secret CIA rendition flights transporting terror suspects, according to a report from state-owned news agency Lusa Monday. Last month,...
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko announced Monday that he has appealed to the country's Constitutional Court a recently-passed bill he fears will illegally expand the cabinet's power at the expense of the presidency. The...
