The US Supreme Court Monday declined to hear an appeal by Florida Governor Jeb Bush against a Florida Supreme Court ruling striking down as an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers a...

Iraqi authorities Monday announced the arrest of Sami Mohammed al-Jafi, also known as Abu Omar al-Kurdi, a top aide to al Qaeda-linked Abu Musab al-Zarqawi . Al-Kurdi has been in Iraqi custody since January 15th, but the...

Britain's Law Society , which represents lawyers in England and Wales, has called for the nine foreign terror suspects who have been detained in the UK since December 2001 to be tried or released....

The US Defense Department has denied a published report that it has set up a new internal espionage arm to get around legal restrictions on foreign clandestine operations. The Washington Post said over the weekend that DOD had established...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Monday, Jan. 24.The US Senate will hold an executive session today at 3 PM ET to consider the nomination of Carlos M....

The UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed that British army prosecutors have completed an inquiry into nine more allegations of brutality by British soldiers in Iraq and are contemplating whether to file charges, Sunday's Observer reports. Four...

Inaugural address, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, January 23, 2005. Excerpt:Today's event has proven once more that the Ukrainian nation and the Ukrainian state have come through. The citizens of Ukraine have secured honest elections and the transfer of government has...

Two American soldiers were convicted Saturday of charges related to the shooting death of an Iraqi woman who was working with them as a translator. A military judge at Camp Liberty in Baghdad found Spc. Charley Hooser of the...

The US Defense Department Saturday finished Combatant Status Review Tribunal hearings for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Following a Supreme Court ruling last year that held that detainees were allowed to...

A top official in Austria's environmentalist Green Party said Saturday that California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger should lose his Austrian citizenship in the wake of his approval last week of the first California execution in three...