In his first major speech to parliament since taking office last week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe followed through on a promise to make amending the country's pacifist constitution a priority. The constitution...
A state trial court judge in Boston ruled Friday that two women from Rhode Island may marry in Massachusetts despite the Commonwealth's 1913 statute forbidding the marriage of couples who can't legally wed in their...
Three US Marines charged with murdering an unarmed Iraqi civilian in April in Hamdania will face courts-martial, the Marine Corps announced Monday. The decision follows preliminary hearings for the three...
Pressure from the Bush administration and the congressional leadership to fast-track a military commissions bill met bipartisan resistance Monday during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing . Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) [official website; JURIST news...
An Israel Defense Forces court denied bail Monday to 18 Palestinian lawmakers on trial for charges of membership in a terrorist organization . The ruling, postponed from last week, reverses an earlier military court decision that...
Members of the European Parliament's Human Rights Subcommittee expressed concern Friday that the human rights situation in Turkey is worsening, saying they heard increased accounts of torture, abductions and other abuses during...
The US Department of Homeland Security laid out its plans to put up a "virtual fence" along the US borders with Canada and Mexico during a press conference Friday announcing that Boeing Corp. has...
The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) has set April 2 as the tentative trial date for former Liberian President Charles Taylor . Justice Julia Sebutinde announced the date Friday during...
Clarence Hill , a convicted murderer on death row in Florida , filed a petition Monday asking the US Supreme Court to stay his execution scheduled for Wednesday. The petition follows Friday's decision [opinion,...
France will grant amnesty to 6,924 illegal immigrants with school-age children, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy announced Monday. Even though thousands more had applied for amnesty [JURIST...
