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A member of the "Toronto 18" pleaded not guilty in a Canadian court on Monday for his alleged role in a failed 2006 terrorist plot to bomb the Toronto Stock Exchange and government...

Spain's lower house of parliament, the Congress of Deputies on Thursday approved a bill that would ease restrictions on abortions . The bill passed by...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler of An-Najah National University Faculty of Law in Nablus on the Palestinian West Bank, says that if the UN formally recognizes Palestine as a state it will rightfully validate the views of the Palestinian...

More than 40 Uighur men have disappeared since being detained by Chinese security forces following the July Xinjiang riots , according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Tuesday. HRW...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued guidelines Monday directing federal prosecutors to respect state-sanctioned medical marijuana use and distribution, ending raids on facilities complying with state law. The memorandum outlining DOJ priorities concerning illicit trafficking...

The accused leader of the so-called "Toronto 18" Zakaria Amara pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of planning to bomb three targets within the province of Ontario in 2006. Those targets included the Toronto...

JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says that the Obama administration can break the sixty-year deadlock in negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians by supporting the establishment of a special moot court - a...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, a legal adviser with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague and co-founder and Associate Editor of Global Brief, Canada's first international affairs magazine, says that in order for the ICC to...

A UK jury found three men guilty of conspiracy to murder after plotting to blow up transatlantic flights using liquid explosives . The three men, Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar, and Tanvid Hussain,...

Chilean judge Manuel Valderrama disclosed on Wednesday a report on the extent and sources of the secret fortune of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet that amounts to $25,978,602 in accounts held outside of Chile,...