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Miami-Dade County has agreed to a $6.25 million settlement that applies to thousands of women illegally strip-searched at county correctional facilities, one of the largest civil rights settlements in the county's history. The settlement was approved Monday...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has flagged and implicitly condemned threats from several high-ranking Sudanese officials warning that international personnel in the country may be at greater risk if the International Criminal Court [official...

The Tokyo High Court on Tuesday refused to award compensation to Chinese victims of atrocities during Japan's occupation of the country, as relations between the two countries grew increasingly tense. Ten survivors and relatives...

New York City agreed on Friday to pay $150 each plus legal fees totaling about $215,000 to 108 protestors arrested during the Republican National Convention and held after a judge ordered their release. Lawyers for...

President Lucio Gutierrez of Ecuador declared a state of emergency in the capital Quito late Friday and dissolved the Ecuador Supreme Court . The drastic measures announced in a surprise national television address came...

Stephen Johnson , President Bush's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency , received approval from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Wednesday. The committee's 17-1 vote in favor of Johnson's nomination sends the...

Solidarity founder and former Polish President Lech Walesa said Monday he has filed charges against Radio Maryja , a radical Roman Catholic radio station in Poland, over...

John Bolton , President Bush's nominee for US ambassador to the UN, appeared Monday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee . Senate Democrats largely oppose Bolton, who has been criticized for his statements on the irrelevance of...

The Canadian Parliament will vote Tuesday on opposition-proposed amendment to Bill C-38 , the federal legislation that would extend civil marriage to same sex couples. The amendment introduced by federal Conservative party...

Cardinal Bernard Law , who resigned as the Archbishop of Boston in 2002 amid accusations that he covered up sexual abuse of children by priests {JURIST news archive], will on Monday lead one of nine memorial masses for...