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An ongoing diplomatic dispute between Japan and South Korea was taken to another level of intensity Wednesday, after a local Japanese prefecture approved a largely symbolic resolution calling for the creation of "Takeshima Day" to...

JURIST Guest Columnist Admiral John Hutson (Ret. USN), former Navy Judge Advocate General, President and Dean of Franklin Pierce Law Center, and now a party to the ACLU torture suit against Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, wonders what myriad reports of...

The presidium of China's National People's Congress (NPC) announced Saturday that the nation's legislators will vote Monday on the passing of the Anti-Secession Law , aimed to foretall Taiwan's secession from...

In Thursday's international brief, two US Senators have called for the UN Security Council to impose heavy sanctions on the Sudanese government for forcing the genocide of thousands in Darfur to end. Senators Sam Brownback...

Arce, et al. v. Garcia, et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Circuit Judge Tjoflat, February 28, 2005 [ruling reversing a $54.6 million verdict against two retired Salvadoran generals for allegedly allowing torture and other abuses...

The UN upheld its ban on its officials testifying in front of US Congress in a letter from Mark Malloch Brown, chief of staff for Secretary-General Kofi Annan, to Senate investigating subcommittee chair Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) ...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has ruled out any possibility of his resignation over the Oil-for-Food scandal currently plaguing the UN. Annan made the statement in an interview on a BBC morning program during which he was questioned...

French President Jacques Chirac is set to join Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in Barcelona Friday at a rally for the "Yes" side in Spain's upcoming referendum on the European Constitution, slated for...

Negotiations continued in Washington Wednesday on a draft Inter-American Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples , an initiative of the Organization of American States . Progress towards completion of the declaration, the first...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has formally suspended Benon Sevan , the head of the UN oil-for-food program , and Joseph Stephanides, a senior official who dealt with contracts. The suspensions come after an...