Police surrounded the Congress of Ecuador on Thursday following a decision by the country's highest electoral court to dismiss 57 of its 100 lawmakers. In a questionable exercise of authority, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal ruled...
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Tuesday criticized the poor human rights records of several US allies and denounced the genocide in Darfur while announcing the publication of the...
The US state of Washington has filed a claim against the federal Department of Health and Human Services challenging a regulation that restricts access to Medicaid benefits for infants born to immigrants...
Belgium has become the first country to criminalize investment in companies that make cluster bombs . Legislation passed the Belgian Senate on Thursday, and the Parliament plans to publish a...
Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine has announced that he will sign a bill requiring sixth grade girls to receive a vaccination for the human papilloma virus (HPV) , a sexually transmitted disease that causes cervical...
The Sydney Morning Herald reported Friday that Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has said as part of a court claim for British citizenship that he was shown a photo of a beaten...
The US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Tuesday that it has no jurisdiction to block the Iraqi death sentence for former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan [Trial Watch profile; JURIST news...
Charges have been brought against former interim president of Liberia Gyude Bryant for embezzling $1.3 million during his tenure from October 2003 until January 2006, according to a Liberia government statement Tuesday. The indictment...
A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has found thirteen soldiers guilty of murdering 30 civilians in the Ituri district . The thirteen were sentenced Monday to life in...
The prime ministers of Spain and Italy have pledged to support Germany in reviving the European Constitution . Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi...
