The Israeli Knesset Wednesday narrowly approved a measure to compensate Jewish settlers evacuating from the Gaza Strip. The bill passed 59-40, reflecting Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "unity" coalition and amid protests from Sharon’s own Likud party [political...
Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov said Wednesday that he will ask the Russian Constitutional Court to overturn portions of the country's controversial law canceling many welfare benefits and replacing them with cash payments. The...
Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, entered into force February 16, 2005. Read the full text of the Protocol . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....
In a speech delivered to the National Press Club Tuesday, Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson accused the federal judiciary of usurping legislative and executive power, called for the Senate leadership to force votes on...
US officials have announced that six more Guantanamo Bay detainees will be released after military Combatant Status Review Tribunals determined that they are not "enemy combatants". The review panels, set up in response...
The US Senate late Tuesday afternoon approved the nomination of federal appeals judge Michael Chertoff as the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. The vote, originally scheduled for last week, had been delayed while Senate Democrats unsuccessfully...
AP is reporting that defrocked Roman Catholic priest Paul Shanley has been sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison for repeatedly molesting a boy in the 1980s.11:35 AM ET - An AP report is now available....
Results for 6 Governorates, Kurdistan Assembly and Transitional National Assembly, Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, February 14, 2005 [showing that the Shiite Alliance, a grouping of Islamic parties, garnered 47.5% of the national vote on January 30 with approximately 8.5...
Reuters is reporting that the Iraqi election commission has just issued final results from the January 30 vote and that the Shiite Alliance, a grouping of Islamic parties, has come out on top, garnering 47.5% of the vote. Meanwhile,...
A spokesman for the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq said in Baghdad Saturday that the final tally of results from the January 30 election will be announced at 4 PM Sunday local time (8 AM...
