S & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department EWCA Civ 1157, August 4, 2006, Supreme Court of Judicature, Court of Appeal [upholding a High Court decision per Mr. Justice Sullivan that nine Afghanistan nationals responsible for...

A panel of three federal judges on Friday redrew Texas's 23rd Congressional District to "restore Latino voting strength" to the district in compliance with a June 2005 Supreme Court ruling. The new congressional map as drawn...

UN agencies working in Gaza joined Friday to urge respect for international humanitarian law and the obligation to protect civilians, reminding the international community in a joint statement not to forget the violence there while attention to...

Several former Burundi government officials who were arrested and detained on Tuesday are being abused in detention, according to family members of the detainees pleading for international attention on local radio broadcasts. The wife of former Vice...

The Verkhovna Rada , the Ukraine parliament, on Friday swore in 11 judges who will compose the Ukrainian Constitutional Court . Judges are nominated to the court by parliament, the president and by an...

Documents made public Thursday show the US government ordered the ACLU to censor copies of newspaper articles and several instances of unfavorable Supreme Court language that appeared in ACLU papers over the course of litigation involving...

The US Senate on Thursday ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime , which is intended to improve information- and evidence-sharing between national governments to prevent crimes on the Internet. The convention has been signed by 38 European...

Ahmad Jannati, head of Iran's powerful Guardian Council , on Friday called for the abolition of the United Nations and the UN Security Council because of its prejudicial stance towards Iran. Jannati complained that the Security...

A UK court on Friday found a man guilty of illegally fox hunting with dogs in the first criminal prosecution under Britain's Hunting Act 2004 . The League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) brought a private prosecution [LACS...

Russian prosecutors said Thursday that they had approved a request from Uzbekistan to extradite 13 people accused of terrorist acts in connection with last year's uprising in Andijan that resulted in the massacre...