Wilkinson v Kitzinger & Ors EWHC 2022 (Fam), July 31, 2006 [denying a bid by a British lesbian couple married in Canada to have their marriage recognized by British law, saying that the traditional British definition of marriage refers...

Resolution 1696, UN Security Council, July 31, 2006, . Read the full text of the resolution....

Immigration Report, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, July 31, 2006 [examining nearly 300,000 immigration cases from 1994-2005, and finding that ten percent of US immigration judges denied asylum in 86 percent of their cases, while another ten percent of immigration judges...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Monday "strongly condemned" the weekend Israeli bombing of the Lebanese village of Qana that resulted in the deaths of some 60 civilians - including 37...

Two British men who face fraud charges in the US related to the Enron scandal are searching for new lawyers, according to papers filed Monday by counsel for a third British man also facing trial. The...

Several hundred thousand protestors camped out in Mexico City's major business district Monday to rally against the defeat of presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the country's July 2 election ...

Corruption charges filed last week against former Malawi President Bakili Muluzi have been dropped after the head of the country's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) was suspended, Malawi's director of public prosecutions said Monday. President...

The parliament of Afghanistan on Monday confirmed Abdul Salam Hazami as chief justice of the Afghan Supreme Court after rejecting an earlier nominee put forward by President Hamid Karzai . Hazami's...

Lawyers for the Texas Republican Party argued before the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Monday that the GOP should be allowed to remove former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay [JURIST news...

A senior Italian intelligence official has told prosecutors that the US Central Intelligence Agency had planned to kidnap more than 10 Muslims suspected of terrorism from Italy and elsewhere and deliver them to Middle Eastern countries for...