Indonesia and East Timor's presidents agreed Wednesday to establish a commission to investigate human rights abuses that led to the deaths of more than 1,000 East Timorese in 1999. The Truth and Friendship Commission will be...

Florida Tuesday opened its case against Alliance Capital Management , the company charged with investing the state's employee pension fund in plunging Enron stock. The Florida State Board of Administration alleges gross negligence, breach of contract...

In a warning that could portend further legal trouble, Japan's Fair Trade Commission said Tuesday that computer chip manufacturer Intel should cease practices that violate Japan's Anti-Monopoly Act by pressuring Japanese companies to buy...

In a Supreme Court report to the National People's Congress, China's Chief Justice Xiao Yang said the Supreme People's Court would "further perfect second-instance judgments for criminal cases and death penalty review procedures." The government has suggested...

The vast majority of Tunisia's 1400 lawyers went on a one-day strike Wednesday to protest alleged police brutality last week when 200 police stormed a Tunis court to remove 50 lawyers gathered in opposition to an upcoming visit by...

A Israeli government-commissioned study of Jewish settlements on the West Bank submitted Tuesday and made public Wednesday has concluded that 105 outposts are illegal, including 54 built on land not belonging to the Israeli state,...

Bosnia opened its own war crimes court in Sarajevo Wednesday in a move hailed by leaders of the international war crimes tribunal at The Hague who anticipate it will absorb some of that court's backlog as well...

{JURIST] Taiwanese leaders have condemned the proposed Chinese "anti-secession" law outlined Tuesday at a meeting of the National People's Congress in Beijing. The law, the full draft of which has still not been made public, endorses...

FBI Director Robert Mueller suggested to the House Appropriations Committee in testimony Tuesday that terror suspects be legally prohibited from buying guns. Under current federal regulatory practice, highlighted yesterday in a new Government Accountability Office...

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke offered additional concessions on the British government's proposed Prevention of Terrorism Bill Wednesday after the legislation came back from the upper chamber House of Lords riddled with amendments designed to protect...