The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp. , 05-1056, where the court must decide whether Microsoft should be...
Arturo Sarukhan , Mexico's newest ambassador to the US, says his country is launching an intensive lobbying effort to secure an immigration reform agreement between the two nations. The plan includes negotiations between Mexican consulates and US state...
A Spanish judge requested permission from Mexico Wednesday to extradite former Argentine naval officer Ricardo Miguel Cavallo back to Argentina. Cavallo was extradited from Mexico to Spain and has been in Spanish custody since 2003. In January...
The UK High Court on Wednesday denied an application for judicial review stemming from a 12-year old Muslim girl's challenge to a public school policy that prevented her from wearing her full-face veil (niqab) [Wikipedia backgrounder; JURIST...
A French judge on Wednesday signed a 191-page indictment against 17 former associates of former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet , charging them with abduction and torture in connection with the disappearance of four French...
A Romanian parliamentary commission announced Wednesday that it had found no evidence that Romania cooperated with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in operating illegal secret prisons and extraordinary rendition flights in Europe, or...
The European Commission (EC) on Wednesday levied a record-breaking antitrust fine against the four biggest elevator and escalator manufacturers in Europe after finding them guilty of restrictive business practices in violation of Article 81 of...
Police imposed a three-month ban on political rallies and protests Wednesday in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare after a political rally held Sunday by opposition group Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) . Despite a court order ...
The Russian Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to overturn the 24-year sentence given to former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin for organizing a series of contract killings, including...
Lawmakers in the French Senate have buried a draft bill that would have criminalized any denial that the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during World War I constituted genocide. The bill has been...