The trial of 45 Italian police and medical staff accused of unlawful violence against protesters at the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa opened Wednesday. The charges stem from violent clashes between protestors and police outside...
Senior Israeli Defense Forces officers, under instruction from Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz , asked the Israeli Supreme Court Tuesday to reconsider last week's ruling banning the use of Palestinian civilians as human...
California's Fourth District Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday to determine whether physicians can refuse to provide fertility treatments to a homosexual women based upon their religious beliefs. In a case expected to eventually be heard by the Supreme...
Two of the six radical Islamic militants interrogated in Bangladesh Wednesday in connection to their role in the simultaneous bombings of three courthouses Monday indicated association with Jamaatul Mujahideen and confessed to targeting the legal system in...
Sunni Arab leaders threatened Wednesday to boycott the upcoming referendum on Iraq's draft constitution if US troops do not stop offensive operations in western Iraq. US forces Tuesday launched their second offensive in a week [AP...
Dutch prosecutors have begun to try 250 of the almost 50,000 people fined for failure to produce valid identification since the country's ID law came into effect on January 1, 2005. The law, intended to stop terrorism and passed...
Over seventy percent of Iranian MPs Wednesday supported a draft bill to suspend International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections of the country's nuclear facilities until the UN watchdog acknowledges Iran's right to pursue nuclear technology. The move...
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told reporters in Brussels Wednesday that he does not expect a European constitution for another two to three years. While referendum failures in France and the...
Harvard Law School will open its career services office to military recruiters beginning this fall, despite the Pentagon's refusal to sign the school's nondiscrimination pledge, Dean Elena Kagan said Tuesday in a letter to...
Japans ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) , its coalition partner the New Komeito Party and its largest opposition, the Democratic Party of Japan , agreed Wednesday to establish a...
