Forty-seven people, including senior aides to French President Jacques Chirac , face corruption charges for allegedly rigging public works contracts to finance political parties. The trial, which begins Monday in Paris, concerns one of several campaign finance scandals...

The Kuwaiti Ministry of Islamic Affairs issued a religious edict Saturday declaring that Kuwaiti emir Sheik Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah should have the final decision on granting women political...

President Bush juggled his weekend schedule to return to Washington Sunday to be ready to sign proposed legislation that would send Terri Schiavo's case to the federal courts . Previously, urgent legislation passed while the president...

Jordan's state security court has sentenced Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to 15 years in prison in absentia for a plot to attack the country's embassy in Iraq. Zarqawi, designated the most-wanted man in Iraq {AP report]...

Former Bosnian Serb general Vinko Pandurevic , wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for war crimes during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, has agreed to surrender to the UN war crimes...

WNBC in New York is reporting that US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has announced a compromise with Senate leaders on a federal legislative initiative to keep Terri Schiavo alive by allowing her case to be appealed to the...

Ibrahim Jaafari, Iraq's leading Shiite candidate for Prime Minister, said Saturday that he would introduce Sharia Islamic law and federalism if selected. Jaafari's Daawa party currently holds a majority of National Assembly seats...

The Hong Kong Bar Association Friday criticized the Hong Kong regional government's recent declaration that under the Hong Kong Basic Law the successor of a chief executive who steps down early shall serve out only the remainder...

Subpoenas of Michael and Terri Schiavo, House Government Reform Committee, March 18, 2005. Read the text of the subpoenas via Abstract Appeal. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

Saturday's Los Angeles Times reports that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan will propose significant changes to the organization at a General Assembly meeting Monday. According to a draft copy of Annan's scheduled Report on Larger Freedom [available on...