The Supreme Court of California ruled Monday that gay and lesbian patients cannot be denied medical treatment because of doctors' religious beliefs. The issue came before the court in a case where a lesbian couple...
The government of Peru on Monday instituted a state of emergency in the northern region of the country, banning public gatherings, limiting travel, and increasing police presence for 30 days. The measure comes in response to...
JURIST] The president of Human Rights Watch , mediation advisors, and other NGO leaders have recently begun to more openly criticize prosecutorial and other judgments made by International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo [official...
Richard Scott, head of the Canadian Judicial Council conduct committee , warned on Sunday that judges should exercise caution in agreeing to head up extra-judicial public inquiries designed to address politically controversial issues. Scott, who is also...
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced Monday he was resigning from office in order to avoid impeachment proceeding by the country's parliament. In a television address , Musharraf denied any wrongdoing, but...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Wednesday that it has reached a tentative agreement with ten US stock exchanges to centralize insider trading controls among the institutions. Under the plan, the programs...
Malaysian Tourism Promotion Board head Mirza Mohammad Taiyab on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to corruption charges based on allegations that he received free dental work in return for granting a government contract. His indictment is...
US Army Gen. Gregory Zanetti , deputy commander at Guantanamo Bay, testified Wednesday that military commissions legal advisor Gen. Thomas Hartmann routinely bullied his counterparts and was inappropriately aggressive in...
Thailand Supreme Court vice president Krairiksh Kasemsant and army General Anupong Paochinda on Wednesday said there was no evidence to support accusations by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra that the country's judiciary is biased...
Alexander Bastrykin, chairman of Russia's Prosecutor General's Office, said Wednesday that his staff is collecting evidence of war crimes allegedly committed by Georgian forces in the breakaway region of South Ossetia . European Union leaders are...
