The US Senate Judiciary Committee will likely call Focus on the Family founder James Dobson , to testify at confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers , Committee chairman Arlen Specter said...
Waddah al-Sheikh, who served as a senior officer in the investigations and evidence unit at Hakmiya, Iraq's main intelligence agency under the rule of Saddam Hussein, became the first witness to testify in Hussein's trial [JURIST news...
The Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index released Tuesday shows more than two-thirds of the 159 countries surveyed scored less than 5 on a scale of zero to ten, indicating serious levels of corruption. The index...
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan filed the largest criminal tax case ever Monday against 19 defendants formerly employed by accounting firm KPMG . The revised indictment replaces an indictment filed against 9 defendants in August...
Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler presented a nine-member advisory committee Monday with the names of six potential candidates for the Supreme Court of Canada . Unlike the US system where...
Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari complained to reporters Monday about the delay in bringing Saddam Hussein to trial, but denied trying to encourage the Iraqi Special Tribunal JURIST [official website; news...
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has called on the government of Burundi to recognize more than 3,000 Rwandan refugees as asylum seekers, allowing them to stay in the country. Since March, nearly 8,000 Rwandans,...
Lawyers representing 10 terror suspects and 13 human rights groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch , appeared before Britain's House of Lords Monday arguing against a 2004 appeals court ruling [ABC...
The Dutch Equal Opportunities Commission will hear the nation's first case brought by a Muslim woman who was refused a job because she would not wear a headscarf . The Islamic College in Amsterdam refused to hire...
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Monday he will not be forced into weakening the government's tough new anti-terrorism measures . The draft legislation, leaked onto the Internet last...
