The military government of Myanmar announced in a television broadcast Saturday that it will hold a constitutional referendum in May, with multi-party elections to follow in 2010. Last September a National Convention originally called in 1993...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said Friday that waterboarding is clearly torture, echoing comments Wednesday by UN Special rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak ,...

A former Senior Advisor for Legislative Framework in the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office set to depart from the US embassy in Baghdad after a year-long posting told US Ambassador Ryan Crocker in a memo obtained...

The US Department of Defense announced Friday that two more Guantanamo Bay detainees have been charged with war crimes. Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul , alleged to be Osama bin Laden's...

The Grand National Assembly of Turkey Saturday formally passed the first of two proposed amendments to the country's constitution that would ease a current ban on Islamic headscarves and allow women to wear headscarves...

Arizona Contractors Association, Inc., et al., v. Criss Candelaria, et al., US District Court for the District of Arizona, February 7, 2008 . Read...

Nebraska v. Raymond Mata, Jr., Supreme Court of Nebraska, February 8, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's...

State of New Jersey, et al., v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, February 8, 2008 . Read the full text of...

Kenyan Minister of Internal Security George Saitoti Friday lifted a ban on public assembly in the strife-torn country, saying that "security has generally improved." The ban was imposed after violent protests broke out following December's contested presidential...

A Spanish National Court judge Friday blocked two Basque political parties from fielding candidates in Spain's March general elections, ruling that the parties were connected to ETA , the armed Basque separatist movement....