Explanation of the draft Anti-Secession Law, Wang Zhaoguo, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), Tuesday, March 8, 2005. Excerpt:Using non-peaceful means to stop secession in defense of our sovereignty and territorial integrity would be...

UK Registrar-General Len Cook Tuesday dismissed 11 legal objections to the proposed civil marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles that had been filed in their home towns of Chippenham and Cirencester. The Registrar-General...

Radical Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir appealed the sentence of the South Jakarta Court Tuesday, following his conviction on conspiracy charges last Thursday in connection with the 2002 Bali bombings. Wirawan Adnan, a member...

Vice Chairman Wang Zhaoguo of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress formally presented the draft version of China's controversial anti-secession law to China's National People's Congress on Tuesday. The NPC, China's parliament, will...

A major international anti-terrorism summit opened Tuesday in Madrid as Spain prepared to mark the one-year anniversary on March 11 of the Madrid train bombings {JURIST report], which killed 200 people and injured...

EU Enlargement Commissioner Gunther Verheugen has warned Turkey not to pursue legislation currently before the Turkish Parliament that would recriminalize adultery. Adultery had been struck down as a punishable crime by the Turkish...

Responding to a lawsuit filed Friday in New York by survivors of the December 26 tsunami, a spokesman for the Thailand Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that his country rejected any legal liability arising from the...

A US military spokesman has told the Associated Press that the US may pull its security detainees out of Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison due to the high number of insurgent attacks against the facility....

Documents from investigations of alleged Iraqi prisoner abuses released by the US Army last week pursuant to an ACLU FOIA suit and made public Monday include a report on a army sergeant who after reporting abuses of...

AP is reporting that Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj has resigned after being indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague. The indictment, anticipated yesterday ...