A federal district judge on Thursday urged the US government to make a decision regarding the visa application of prominent European Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan . Ramadan was originally denied a visa in August 2004, when he was...

The victory of former Prime Minister Romano Prodi over incumbent Silvio Berlusconi in the disputed April 9-10 parliamentary elections seemed confirmed Friday after reports that the number of...

The French Senate Thursday voted 158-123 to approve compromise labor legislation to replace the controversial CPE First Employment Contract , completing a governmental retreat from the controversial youth job plan that...

A spokesman for the Swedish Foreign Ministry told AFP Thursday that under its current legal structure, Sweden would not be able to incarcerate former Liberian President Charles Taylor following his war crimes...

Iran is permitted to develop a civil nuclear program and its resumption of uranium processing does not violate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), a leading British lawmaker said Thursday. Labor Party MP Jeremy Corbyn ,...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Wednesday sentenced a former Rwandan mayor to 15 years in prison for his participation in the 1994 genocide that the Rwandan government estimates left at...

Message to the nation by King Gyanendra of Nepal, April 14, 2006 .English-language translation from eKantipur.com:Beloved Countrymen,On the occasion...

Convicted 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui took the witness stand for the second time in his sentencing trial Thursday and lambasted his court-appointed defense attorneys for failing to move the proceeding...

Leading Thursday's environmental law brief, the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court has ruled that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) has the authority to adopt stormwater rules...

AP is reporting that Nepal's King Gyanendra has called for general elections and has promised dialogue with the opposition. Opposition political parties have been staging pro-democracy protests for over a week, calling...