Saddam Hussein defense lawyer and former head of the Jordanian Lawyers Association Saleh al-Armouti said Friday that Hussein has claimed that the United States had offered him life in exile "like Napoleon" if he would use...

The Advancement Project , a Washington, DC-based advocacy group, has filed a federal lawsuit challenging election plans for New Orleans , alleging that the plan puts too much emphasis on absentee voting and would keep blacks out...

Leading Friday's environmental law news, a California law that makes it illegal to throw away electronic waste went into effect Thursday. Under the law , residents will have to take most consumer electronic equipment, including computers, printers, VCRs,...

Hong Kong High Court Justice Michael Hartmann has ruled that an executive order on covert surveillance operations made last year by Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen is unconstitutional. Instead of immediately repealing it,...

Conrad Black , former chairman of media company Hollinger International , told a US federal judge in Chicago Friday that he would prefer to have a trial soon. Black appeared at a court hearing held to...

The government of mainly-Muslim Malaysia has imposed a blanket ban on the controversial caricatures of Muhammad , making it an offense to publish, import, produce, manufacture, circulate, distribute or even possess the cartoons originally printed in a...

Initial results from the February 7 presidential election in Haiti indicate that Rene Preval , a former president and ally of ousted leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide has won...

Iraq's election chief on Friday announced certified results in the December 15 parliamentary elections , confirming results announced by the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) last month. Of the 275 seats, 128...

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has decided not to submit a bill to parliament that would allow women to succeed to the throne, Japanese media reported Friday. Koizumi had supported a proposal that would change...

US Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and 14 other Republican senators have introduced a proposal that would rewrite an asbestos bill to allow asbestos-related lawsuits only under strict medical criteria, rather than establishing a $140 billion fund [JURIST...