The California State Assembly voted 42-34 Tuesday to approve the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act which would restore California's marriage statute to its pre-1977 gender-neutral language and define marriage as "a personal...
Judges on Ecuador's new Constitutional Tribunal Tuesday selected Patricio Pazmino Freire, a supporter of Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa , to head the court. The new membership of the tribunal, elected [Prensa Latina...
The Constitutional Court of Hungary ruled Tuesday in favor of a proposed referendum on unpopular economic reform proposals advanced by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany . A coalition of opposition parties including the Hungarian Civic Party...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an appeal Tuesday against the dismissal of immigration fraud charges against anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles . US District Judge Kathleen Cardone ruled in...
The New Haven, Connecticut Board of Alderman has voted 25-1 to fund a program advanced by Mayor John DeStefano Jr. that will provide a municipal identification card to all residents, including the approximately 15,000 undocumented...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday that Russia will not raise the issue of withdrawing from the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty when it meets with other CFE Treaty signatories in Vienna next week....
France's practice of expelling non-citizens accused of links to violent extremism lacks sufficient procedural safeguards and undermines human rights , according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch . The report found that...
Thailand's interim-government Monday lifted a ban on political activities that had been in place since the 2006 bloodless coup , which will allow the dissolved political party Thai Rak Thai (TRT) [official website, in...
Karunakaran Kandasamy, the alleged director of the American branch of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) , and four other defendants pleaded not in US federal court guilty Monday to charges of providing material support...
US District Judge Reggie B. Walton sentenced former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to 30 months in prison Tuesday for his conviction on two counts of perjury, one count...
