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Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei said Monday in his annual report to UN member states that he wants North Korea to return to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty [text, PDF; IAEA...

The German Federal Foreign Office on Wednesday rejected a ruling by Italy's highest court ordering Germany to pay damages to relatives of civilians killed in the town of Civitella during World War II. The Italian...

JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that instituting a special "national security court" to try terrorism and related cases outside of the regular federal court structure would perpetuate illegality and serve neither our...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wrote in a report issued Monday that the Iranian government has made limited progress in some areas of human rights but that other areas such as basic freedoms, minority rights and...

Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited Tuesday from Mexico to Guatemala, where he is accused of authorizing transfers of $15.8 million from the budget of the Guatemalan Ministry of Defense during his presidency from...

The US Senate voted Wednesday to approve legislation establishing a cooperative nuclear energy agreement with India. The bill, entitled the "United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Nonproliferation Enhancement Act," was approved by a vote of...

The annual UN Treaty Event , celebrated yearly to promote universal participation in international treaties and agreements, concluded Wednesday after a number of states signed and ratified various treaties and conventions. This year's event,...

Agnieszka Bienczyk-Missala : "In August 2008 the Public Prosecutor's Office in Poland started an investigation on the existence of secret CIA detention facilities in Poland. It happened three years after the revealing information...

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev Wednesday signed military defense agreements with Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia despite heavy international criticism. Medvedev said that Russia now recognized the regions as...

A bill overwriting judicial interpretations which have narrowed protections under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) awaits President Bush's signature following passage by the US House of Representatives on Wednesday....