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The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in the case of Dixon v. United States, where the Court will clarify how criminal defendants can use evidence of domestic battery at their trials. Cherie Ashford...

A man from the Georgian Republic who lobbed a grenade toward US President George W. Bush while he was on a visit there in May last year was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday by a Georgian court. Vladimir...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist and UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke says that as the British government's proposed Terrorism Bill proceeds through Parliament we should bear in mind that citizens of democracies expect not only the protection of individual rights, but...

After a fifteen year-old girl was killed and six bystanders were injured Monday in a random shooting spree on a busy downtown shopping street, Toronto Mayor David Miller said Tuesday that weak US gun laws are partly...

The trial of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye on charges of treason and rape is set to begin on December 19. Besigye has been denied bail as he faces separate charges of terrorism and illegal...

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin on Thursday proposed a sweeping national ban on handguns in an effort to combat escalating gun violence in Canadian cities. In Toronto, there have been 50 homicides from gunfire this...

The trial of Vladimir Arutunyan , the Georgian man who attempted to assassinate US President George W. Bush with a grenade when Bush was visiting the former Soviet state earlier this year, began Monday. Arutunyan is accused of...

A US Army officer has been arrested on bribery, money laundering, theft, and wire fraud charges as part of an illegal scheme during his service with the US governing administration in Iraq, according to US Department...

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye , charged last week with treason by civilian prosecutors, was taken before a Ugandan military court Thursday to answer additional charges of terrorism and illegal firearms possession. Besignye, who had been...

California voters Tuesday rejected a hotly-contested initiative that would have prevented lawmakers from drawing political voting districts . The initiative was allowed on the ballot after an appeal to the California...