In an attempt to break a ten-year deadlock over reforming the United Nations Security Council , Italy suggested Monday that a new system be instituted by which the council would award 10 new seats to regional groups rather...

Ziad al-Khasawneh , the Jordanian head of Saddam Hussein's legal defense team, claimed Monday that Iranian-backed Iraqi politicians are plotting to assassinate Hussein in prison. Al-Khasawneh based his claim on information received from a former Iraqi government official...

A Danish intelligence officer, Reserve Capt. Annemette Hommel, and four military police sergeants pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of abuse of Iraqi prisoners . The military prosecutor, Benny Holm Frandsen, told a Copenhagen court that the soldiers...

In an escalation of the controversy over judicial nominations, the conservative group Progress for America began running television advertisements in six states Monday at the outset of a $3.3 million dollar TV ad campaign that will go...

Report on the death of Italian security agent Nicola Calipari and the wounding of two others in Baghdad in the wake of the release of Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena on March 4, 2005, Italian investigative commission, released May 2, 2005...

Florida HB 1877, the Jessica Lunsford Act, signed into law by Florida Governor Jeb Bush on May 2, 2005 [mandating that all sex offenders who prey on children aged 12 or under will be sentenced to 25 years in prison,...

Charge sheet for Pfc. Lynndie England, revised February 11, 2005 . Pages 1, 2, 3 via FindLaw. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here and here....

Opening address to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, May 2, 2005 [saying that new threats and technology have made sections of the 1970 treaty outdated, and urging the 188-states party to the treaty to act...

A report released late Monday by Italian officials on the circumstances of the March 4 shooting of Italian agent Nicola Calipari after an Iraq hostage rescue has challenged a report on the same incident produced by US military investigators....

Former UK Chief of the Defense Staff Admiral Sir Michael Boyce told the Observer newspaper in an interview published Monday that he was never shown the full legal advice from British Attorney General Lord...