Legislators in Mexico City have begun deliberations on a bill that would legalize abortions during the first trimester of pregnancy. The bill, proposed by the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) , would...
Spain's Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of the Spanish Parliament, approved a gender equality bill Thursday designed to draw more women into politics and corporate life. The bill had previously been approved by Spain's...
White House advisor Karl Rove originally suggested firing all 93 US Attorneys in January 2005, according to an email conversation released by the US Department of Justice Thursday. The e-mails appear to contradict the...
The German Federal Court of Justice on Thursday ruled Nazi symbols could be used to protest extremism, overturning an October decision by a state court in Stuttgart . The lower court had ordered Juergen Kamm,...
French President Jacques Chirac will be questioned by a judge this summer regarding his involvement in rigging public works contracts to finance political parties when he was mayor of Paris in the late 1980s and...
The appeals chamber of the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) on Thursday upheld the death penalty for former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan , rejecting his appeal of...
The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday upheld an election law prohibiting media outlets from broadcasting final election results in areas where the polls have not yet closed, finding the law a reasonable limit on...
The Supreme Court of Israel should re-organize as an independent body, severing financial and administrative ties with the Israeli Justice Ministry , Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch said in a press conference Wednesday. Beinisch...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee agreed by voice-vote Thursday to issue subpoenas compelling five current and former DOJ aides and six fired US Attorneys to testify before the committee on whether their firings were politically motivated [JURIST...
The Berkeley, California city council voted Tuesday to support the criminal complaint filed in Germany against former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...