Moscow City Court has rejected a bid by a surviving member of the Russian Romanov imperial dynasty to declare Tsar Nicholas II exonerated of the Soviet-era criminal charge against him and declare his 1918 murder at the...

A spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that Karzai would await a Supreme Court ruling on the legality of parliament dismissing government ministers before relieving Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta after...

Voters in Farmers Branch, Texas approved a city ordinance Saturday which requires apartment renters to show proof of US residency and penalizes landlords who rent to illegal immigrants . Landlords who do not...

Over 250,000 people gathered in Rome Saturday to protest a bill currently before parliament which would give legal status to unmarried heterosexual and same-sex couples . The bill was approved by Italy's cabinet in February,...

Outgoing UK Home Secretary John Reid told a meeting of ministers from major EU states Saturday that European human rights laws needed to be "modernized" to provide better protection from new terrorism threats. Addressing a conference of...

German Chancellor Angel Merkel Saturday urged European Union members to work together to advance a European constitution , largely stalled since referendum setbacks in France and the Netherlands in 2005. Merkel, whose country...

At least eleven people have reportedly died and several dozen others have sustained injuries in Pakistan in conjunction with a Saturday rally in Karachi in support of suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry [official website; JURIST...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Friday withdrew one of its proposals for tightened restrictions on contact between lawyers and their clients at Guantanamo Bay outlined in an...

Poland's Constitutional Tribunal Friday struck down portions of the country's so-called Lustration Law passed in October 2006 requiring over 700,000 Polish professionals - academics , journalists, lawyers, diplomats and...

A Moroccan man convicted of aiding the Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers lost an appeal to Germany's top criminal court Friday. Mounir el Motassadeq was convicted in November of being an accessory to murder for...