Former US Senator John Danforth has called a Republican-sponsored constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage "silly," saying the Republican party's stance calls for them to interpret the constitution narrowly rather than expansively. Speaking over the weekend to the Log Cabin Republicans , a group which supports gay rights, Danforth cited prohibition as a previous attempt [...]
Jury selection will begin Monday in the second trial of John Allen Muhammad , who was convicted of one sniper shooting in Virginia but now faces six murder charges for killings in Maryland that occurred during the three-week shooting spree in the Washington, DC area in 2002. The trial is taking place in Montgomery County, [...]
The jurors in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui are set to resume deliberations Monday after spending a weekend at home. The Alexandria, Virginia, jury stopped work Friday in the wake of an admonishment from Judge Leonie Brinkema against doing "outside research", prompted by one of the jurors looking up the potentially-key word "aggravating" in [...]
A European Union-imposed deadline for Serbia to turn over war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic passed Sunday with no arrest of the former general. EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said last week that the EU would have "no other option than to call off the next round of negotiations" if Mladic was not turned over within [...]
JURIST , the non-commercial legal news and research service powered by law students led by Professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law , is running neck and neck with US legal television network Court TV in the final days of voting for the annual Webby Awards "People's Voice" award for best [...]
The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved several amendments to the route of the Israeli security fence around Jerusalem and the West Bank and Israeli Prime Minister-designate Ehud Olmert urged that the barrier be completed as soon as possible. Following the deadly suicide bombing in Tel Aviv earlier this month, Olmert convened top security officials to [...]
US journalist Edward Caraballo, one of three US citizens jailed in 2004 on charges of running a private jail and torturing eight Afghan men, was released Sunday from Kabul's Pul-i-Charki prison by presidential decree. Caraballo, former US Green Beret Jonathan Idema , and ex-servicemen Brett Bennett entered Afghanistan on a freelance terrorist hunt and were [...]
The Egyptian parliament on Sunday extended the country's emergency laws for two more years in order to allow more time for the government to draft anti-terrorism legislation. The emergency laws, which would have expired in June, were implemented in 1981 in response to the assassination of former President Anwar Sadat and grant the Egyptian government [...]
In a ground-breaking political development in Nepalese history, the country's recently reinstated parliament on Sunday unanimously endorsed a proposal to hold elections for a constituent assembly that will draft a new constitution . "Honorable members, there was no 'nay' heard during the voice voting on the motion. I hereby declare that the resolution tabled by [...]
The Sudanese government said Sunday that it is ready to formally accept the peace deal mediated by the African Union for the war-torn region of Darfur . Majzoub al-Khalifa, head of the government negotiating team, said that Sudan is willing to sign the agreement despite some reservations and added, "The government wishes to confirm its [...]
