The South African Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that same-sex partners in a permanent relationship have the same inheritance rights as married heterosexual couples , and that a surviving partner could therefore take by intestacy...
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International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Thursday that the tribunal could start its first formal trial in 2007 if judges confirmed charges against Congo militia leader Thomas Lubanga...
The European Commission announced Thursday that Microsoft had filed new technical documentation with it in a last-minute bid to comply with a March 2004 Commission antitrust ruling [text, PDF; background...
Some 25,000 Rwandans gathered in a sports stadium in the capital Kigale Thursday to protest a French judge's issuance of arrest warrants for nine top Rwandan officials on suspicion of involvement in the 1994 downing of the plane carrying...
Canadian Conservative Party Prime Minister Stephen Harper joined with Ontario Liberal Party Premier Dalton McGinty and Toronto Mayor David Mills Thursday to lay out the terms of proposed federal gun crime legislation being...
Pakistan's Senate Thursday approved a reformed rape law that allows rape cases to be tried in either secular or Islamic courts, reduces the evidentiary burden necessary for conviction, and substitutes a fine and five-year prison term for...
The UN Security Council Wednesday voted unanimously to approve a request from Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora for the UN commission probing the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri to also investigate...
A federal judge in New Orleans Wednesday rejected a bid to have all federal lawsuits against Merck & Co. brought in connection with the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx consolidated in...
Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Lebanon, UN Human Rights Council, November 10, 2006; released November 21, 2006 [reporting that Israel's use of force against civilians during its 33-day campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon was "excessive, indiscriminate and disproportionate"...
Brief Amicus Curiae of Former Senior Justice Department Officials, Ali-Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri v. Wright, November 20, 2006 [opposing an interpretation of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) that would deny suspected terrorists held in the US access to the...
