The Jerusalem District Court issued a landmark decision Sunday saying that the Palestinian Authority (PA) meets the legal requirements needed to be considered a state and that therefore Israel has no legal jurisdiction over it. The statement was made in a ruling in a civil case between the Association of the Elon Moreh College and [...]

In 2005 sixteen Nazi war criminals were convicted for atrocities during World War II in Italy, Germany and Poland, a marked increase in convictions over the previous year, according to a new report issued by the Simon Wiesenthal Center . The report praised countries that pursued the prosecutions but sharply criticized Austria for failing to [...]

Thousands of Nepalese pro-democracy protesters marched toward Kathmandu Sunday despite an all-day curfew that was imposed on the city and surrounding areas last week. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators and several injuries were reported. Large demonstrations and clashes with police resulting in injuries to several hundred protestors in Kathmandu itself occurred [...]

A US federal prosecutor said Friday that proceeding with a US trial of former Russian nuclear energy minister Yevgeny Adamov on charges of fraud, money laundering, and tax evasion for diverting to his own use as much as $9 million in US aid earmarked for security improvements at Russian nuclear plants would be "pointless." Adamov [...]

Bancoult v. McNamara, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, April 21, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Libyan retrial of five Bulgarian nurses accused of infecting over 400 patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus is scheduled to begin on May 11 in Tripoli, Bulgaria’s foreign ministry announced Saturday. In December Libya’s Supreme Court overturned previous convictions against the nurses and a Palestinian doctor, which had led to the six being [...]

A presidential doctor in Indonesia Saturday declared former dictator General Suharto still unfit to stand trial, as he suffers from permanent brain damage and cannot have a logical conversation. Recently renewed efforts to have Suharto stand trial on corruption charges prompted Dr. Marjo Subiandono, a Brigadier General, to re-examine Suharto to see if he showed [...]

Iraq President Jalal Talabani formally designated hardline Shiite politician Jawad al-Maliki to form a new government Saturday, giving him 30 days to present his Cabinet to Parliament for approval. Shiites nominated al-Maliki on Friday after outgoing Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari gave up his bid for another term. The move ends months of political deadlock between [...]

An Italian appeals court on Saturday certified the final Senate votes in Italy’s disputed April 9-10 election , confirming a narrow two-seat majority for Romano Prodi in the upper house of the Italian parliament. The widely expected certification of votes cast by Italians living overseas confirms the outcome of the election announced Wednesday by the [...]

Nepalese security forces fired rubber bullets and live rounds on tens of thousands of pro-democracy protestors in Kathmandu Saturday, injuring many demonstrators as they marched toward the palace of King Gyanendra just one day after his pledge to restore democracy to the country was rejected as inadequate by the seven-party political alliance that has been [...]