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The Thai government on Tuesday extradited alleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout to the US to stand trial. The Thai Cabinet approved the extradition and handed Bout...

Ian Bancroft : "What was truly significant about the recent events in the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar was the willingness of both presidents - Serbia's Boris Tadić and Croatia's Ivo Josipović - to apologize for...

JURIST Guest Columnist Alina Christova of the Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel says the European Stabilization Mechanism, recently agreed upon in the European Union, is a welcome step towards a permanent, crisis-management system, but that additional measures must...

Iraqi parliamentary officials on Saturday unanimously approved a power-sharing agreement whereby Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and President Jalal Talabani will remain in power for an additional term, despite tension over governmental...

Haroon Moghul Executive Director, The Maydan Institute: "Last week, Oklahomans voted overwhelmingly in favor of State Question 755, which forbids state courts from considering "international law," defined as a discourse "formed by the general assent of civilized nations," and "Sharia,"...

The voters of Arizona, Oklahoma and Colorado on Tuesday voted on state constitutional amendments seeking to make the individual mandate provision of the recent health care reform law unenforceable in their states. In...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association on whether the First Amendment permits any limits...

Yemeni prosecutors on Tuesday charged US citizen and radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki , with incitement to kill foreigners. Awlaki, a suspected member of al Qaeda who is believed to be hiding in...

JURIST Guest Columnist Silvio Waisbord of George Washington University says the "anti-racism" law recently passed in Bolivia is a result of deep divisions in the country, but that it won't help, and may actually hamper, civil discourse about those issues......

The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday expanded journalists' rights to protect sources while testifying.The decision, delivered by Justice Louis LeBel, expanded a May Supreme Court ruling that denied journalists the overarching ability to guarantee...