A Dallas federal judge declared a mistrial Monday on nearly all 197 counts in a controversial case against the Islamic Holy Land Foundation charity and five of its leaders. Judge A. Joe Fish took the step after three jurors insisted that the verdicts of acquittal read by the court were incorrect. According to the jury [...]

A Supreme Court of Pakistan justice said at a hearing Monday on the results of the recent presidential election ostensibly re-electing President Pervez Musharraf that the spectre of martial law continues "haunting" the country, despite efforts to move past the issue. Justice Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday said that the court has been unable to forget official threats, [...]

Reversing the US Supreme Court's abortion decision in Roe v. Wade would not prevent wealthy women from getting abortions, but would have a "devastating" effect on underprivileged females, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in a Sunday speech at an Atlanta synagogue. Ginsburg said that upper- and middle-class women who can afford to travel will go [...]

Microsoft will take the necessary steps to comply with a 2004 European Commission (EC) antitrust ruling against it, the EC announced Monday. The software company has agreed to allow open source software developers to access and use interoperability information, reduce the royalties for a worldwide license, and make agreements between third party developers and Microsoft [...]

Russia will create an organization to track and monitor human rights abuses in Europe and the US, according to Anatoly Kucherena, a lawyer on Russia's new Public Chamber , an ombudsman-like body established two years ago at the urging of Russian President Vladimir Putin to analyze draft legislation and serve as a watchdog on federal [...]

UK Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor Jack Straw favors televising proceedings of the UK Supreme Court, the Times reported Monday. The new top court, created by the Constitutional Reform Act of 2005 , is expected to open in October 2009 and would technically replace the judicial panel of the House of Lords [...]

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki urged the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Monday to "take legal action" against 400 companies that allegedly supplied chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein during the 1980-1988 Iraqi war with Iran . Mottaki said that action against the companies involved in supplying chemical weapons to Hussein "will prevent expansion of such [...]

Taiwanese lawmaker Gao Jyh-peng of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led by beleaguered Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian was indicted Monday on graft charges. Prosecutors allege that Gao, a close acquaintance of Chen, accepted $15,300 worth of New Taiwan dollars to help a company rent state-owned land. Gao disclaimed any involvement in the scandal, and [...]

Preliminary results show that a majority of Turkish voters have backed constitutional reforms put to a nationwide referendum Sunday. About half of the votes have been tallied and 72 percent of ballots have been in favor of the constitutional reform package , which includes reducing the maximum parliamentary term from five years to four; requiring [...]

A special FBI task force is reworking cases against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the other so-called "high-value" Guantanamo Bay detainees over concerns that information and confessions previously obtained by the CIA may be inadmissible in court, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. According to a source for the Times, the task force was formed as [...]