Members of the Knesset , Israel's parliament, debated a draft national constitution at a special session Monday but came away sharply split. The Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee presented a 9,000 page report on CD...
Pakistani police Monday fired tear gas to stop approximately 7,000 students from protesting controversial and allegedly-blasphemous caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have now been re-published in newspapers in Europe and around the world....
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki Monday accepted the resignations of Education Minister George Saitoti and Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi in a televised announcement in connection with their role in two separate corruption scandals...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) found that Greece failed to implement or comply with EU directives in twenty cases in 2005, the most of all European Union member states, according to statistics...
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has decided not to submit a bill to parliament that would allow women to succeed to the throne, Japanese media reported Friday. Koizumi had supported a proposal that would change...
US Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and 14 other Republican senators have introduced a proposal that would rewrite an asbestos bill to allow asbestos-related lawsuits only under strict medical criteria, rather than establishing a $140 billion fund [JURIST...
Andrew Lindberg , chief executive of the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) , has stepped down from his position as the Australian judicial inquiry continues its fourth week of investigations into alleged Australian connections to...
French Judge Fabrice Burgaud told a parliamentary inquiry Wednesday that he had not acted incorrectly when investigating pedophilia charges in the French town of Outreau. Thirteen people were wrongly convicted of pedophilia and spent 16-39...
US Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM), chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence has called for a complete review of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) , which governs the monitoring of...
The Italian Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would increase the number of women elected to parliament. If the bill becomes law, it would require that females make up...
