Iraqi officials and local leaders have stepped up pressure on the US military to take swift corrective action in the face of allegations that troops raped an Iraqi woman and murdered her and her family near the town of...

Work on the new interim constitution of strife-torn Nepal formally began Thursday, the six-person Interim Constitution Drafting Committee (ICDC) announced at a press conference. The ICDC, formed three weeks ago in a historic contract [text; JURIST...

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has criticized Iraq's recently-announced most-wanted list , implicitly taking National Security Adviser Mowafaq al-Rubai'i to task for including two women, Saddam Hussein's eldest daughter Raghad and...

Hollinger Inc. , the Canadian holding company with an interest in the newspaper publisher Hollinger International , filed a lawsuit Thursday in an Ontario court against former CEO Conrad Black and other...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a record-setting jury verdict that had awarded $145 billion in punitive damages in a class action challenge brought by smokers against tobacco companies. The Court vacated...

AP is reporting that the Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the state's ban on same-sex marriage contained in a 2004 constitutional amendment . In May, a lower court judge ruled the ban unconstitutional [order,...

An Israeli military tribunal Wednesday extended the detentions of five Palestinian Hamas lawmakers for an additional five days. The five - four MPs and one cabinet member - challenged the authority of the Israel Defense Forces court...

North Korea on Thursday claimed it has a "legal right" to build and test missiles in an effort to strengthen self-defense, in a statement from the foreign ministry which also confirmed that the country test-launched seven...

Google is prepared to file antitrust complaints against Internet broadband providers if Congress fails to pass effective net neutrality legislation, Google Vice President Vinton Cerf has told a press conference in Bulgaria. Cerf suggested that the claims...

France has responded to reports that its intelligence agents interviewed six former Guantanamo Bay detainees now on trial in Paris while they were detained at the US prison, saying that the agents...