Iran will stop considering international incentives to end its uranium enrichment program if the UN Security Council passes a resolution sanctioning the country, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi stated Sunday. France proposed the resolution Friday after negotiations among the permanent members of the Security Council demanding that Iran end nuclear activities by August [...]
The seven judges of Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal Saturday heard arguments by lawyers for leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for a full recount of the July 2 presidential poll which Obrador lost by 0.6 percent to conservative Felipe Calderon . Obrador's legal team is arguing that there were errors, falsifications and other problems [...]
Over 20,000 Bangladeshis marched Saturday in the capital Dhaka calling for electoral reforms ahead of a nationwide poll scheduled for January. Peaceful demonstrations organized by a coalition of 14 opposition parties began Tuesday. The demonstrators were closely watched by police and security services on the alert for violence and what one official called "subversive acts." [...]
A frustrated New Orleans Parish criminal court judge said Friday in an emergency order that he will start releasing prisoners on August 29 if their cases do not go to trial by then. Judge Arthur Hunter asked, "If we are still part of the United States and if the Constitution still means something, then why [...]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a controversial law against extremism that a Kremlin statement described as "aimed at improving the definition of extremist activity by classifying socially dangerous actions as extremist." Crimes embraced by the legislation approved late Friday following passage by the Russian parliament earlier this month include incitement to racial hatred, publicly [...]
CBS has appealed a Federal Communications Commission decision to fine it $550,000 for an incident in the 2004 Super Bowl broadcast when performer Janet Jackson experienced what was later euphemistically labeled a "wardrobe malfunction" that briefly exposed one of her breasts. CBS argued Friday in a filing with the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals [...]
The US House of Representatives passed two key bills late Friday in a blitz of legislative activity before its scheduled summer adjournment. A measure described by House Majority Leader John Boehner (D-OH) as representing "the most sweeping changes to America's pension laws in more than 30 years" passed 279-131 . The 900-page bill, designed to [...]
A spokesman for British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday that US President George W. Bush has offered Blair a brief apology for apparent US failure to follow proper UK aviation safety procedures in a recent transshipment of American "smart bombs" to Israel via Prestwick International Airport in Glasgow, Scotland. The apology came in talks [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that Article 51 of the UN Charter is probably broad enough to cover Israel's actions against Hezbollah in Lebanon following the kidnappings of its soldiers but would not have excused a pre-emptive strike… It has been suggested that an overly punitive form of [...]
Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 40 of the Covenant, UN Human Rights Committee, July 28, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
