Proyecto de Ley Organica de salud sexual y reproductiva y de la interrupcion voluntaria del ebarazo (Project of Organic Law of sexual health and reproduction and of the voluntary interruption of pregnancy), Spanish Congress of Deputies, December 17, 2009 [easing...

Spain's lower house of parliament, the Congress of Deputies on Thursday approved a bill that would ease restrictions on abortions . The bill passed by...

The chief justice of the Russian Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a review of the 2003 arrest of Platon Lebedev , business partner of former Yukos oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky [defense website; JURIST news...

A South Korean court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for former prime minister Han Myeong-sook on bribery charges. Han is accused of accepting USD $50,000 from former Korea Express CEO Kwak Young-wook in 2007 in exchange for helping...

The leader of France's conservative party, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) announced Wednesday that he will introduce legislation banning the burqa in public. Jean-Francois Cope's announcement [Le Figaro report, in...

Credit Suisse , Switzerland's second largest bank, agreed Wednesday to pay more than $500 million in fines to both the US government and New York state for violating US sanctions against Iran and other countries....

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday granted Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Saeed Hatim's petition for habeas corpus, ordering his release. The US Department of Defense [official...

US Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that the decision to purchase the Thomson Correctional Center (TCC) in northwestern Illinois to house inmates from Guantanamo Bay could help close the...

R (on the application of E) (Respondent) v Governing Body of JFS and the Admissions Appeal Panel of JFS (Appellants), Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, December 16, 2009 [holding that a Jewish school discriminated against a boy by denying...

Constitution Petition Numbers 76-80 of 2007 & 59/2009 and Civil Appeal Number 1094 of 2009 and HRC Numbers14328-P-14331-P & 15082-P of 2009, Supreme Court of Pakistan, December 16, 2009 [striking down the National Reconciliation Ordinance which granted President Asif Ali...