A federal judge Friday dismissed a lawsuit challenging a new Arizona law aimed at preventing employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants . The Legal Arizona Workers Act , enacted in...

Six French charity workers accused of complicity in an abortive effort by French charity Zoe's Ark to airlift so-called "Darfur orphans" out of Chad to Europe went on a hunger strike in...

German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and his 16 regional counterparts have consider Scientology "an organization that is not compatible with the constitution", and will work to ban it in Germany, Schäuble said at the end of a...

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro has concluded that at least 31 people were killed in a crackdown on anti-government protesters this September, according to UN...

US Department of Justice lawyers advised the CIA's general counsel in 2003 not to destroy videotapes showing the "harsh interrogations" of high-value terror detainees Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri [GlobalSecurity profile; JURIST news...

An emerging deal to select a new Lebanese president ran into a roadblock Friday as political factions in Lebanon's parliament failed to agree on mechanisms for changing a problematic constitutional provision. The favored candidate to replace now ex-president Emile...

Margaret R. Chambers v. Cassandra B. Ormiston, Supreme Court of Rhode Island, December 7, 2007 [ruling that a lesbian couple legally married in Massachusetts does not have the right to divorce in Rhode Island because Rhode Island does not explicitly...

Pakistani Attorney General Malik Qayyum told Geo-TV Friday that emergency rule in Pakistan would be lifted and the country's constitution restored on December 15, one day earlier than the date set last week by...

Four of the five UK residents being detained at Guantanamo Bay are scheduled to be released, the BBC reported Friday. Jordanian Jamil el Banna, Libyan Omar Deghayes and Algerian Abdennour Sameur will return to the UK,...

The Rhode Island Supreme Court Friday ruled that a lesbian couple legally married in Massachusetts does not have the right to divorce in Rhode Island because Rhode Island does not explicitly recognize same-sex marriage. In...