Lawmakers in Afghanistan have called for the prosecution of US soldiers for a vehicle accident that killed as many as five Afghans and set off deadly riots earlier this week in the capital of...
A federal judge has denied a request for a temporary restraining order that would have forced the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to continue a housing voucher program for evacuees from Hurricane Katrina . Without...
Costa Rica's Supreme Court has upheld a law forbidding same-sex marriage , rejecting arguments that the law is unconstitutional. Hearing a lawsuit brought by lawyer Yashin Castrillo Fernandez, the court's Constitutional Chamber voted...
The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to fast-track the state's appeal of a lower court ruling striking down a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage as unconstitutional. Oral arguments are...
An appeals court in Uzbekistan on Tuesday upheld an eight-year prison term for human rights activist Mutabar Tojiboyeva , even though prosecutors had recommended a more lenient sentence. Tojiboyeva, a prominent critic of Uzbekistan President...
Ireland broke European law by asking the United Nations to arbitrate its claim against the United Kingdom in respect of the Sellafield nuclear power plant , an EU court ruled Tuesday....
AP is reporting that a jury in Rockville, Md. has convicted Washington, D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad of six counts of murder. The jurors heard four weeks of testimony in the trial, in which Muhammad...
A group that opposes South Dakota's abortion ban announced Tuesday that it has gathered more than enough signatures to prevent the July 1 enactment of the law and place it on the ballot in November. The South...
Government officials have asked the Supreme Court of Chile to place a gag order on former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori to prevent him from discussing the upcoming presidential election in Peru. Fujimori...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has said the government does not need court approval to obtain domestic telephone records because they are not protected by the US Constitution's Fourth Amendment according to the Supreme Court's 1979...
