A New York judge Monday imposed a 10-day jail sentence and a $1,000 fine for criminal contempt against transit union president Roger Toussaint , who called for an illegal strike in December 2005 that shut down New York's subways and buses. The judge will allow Toussaint to remain free for the next 30 days in [...]

A Moscow court ruled Monday that the Russian Human Rights Research Center , a major human rights umbrella group, will remain open despite increased government control over NGOs. The Russian Justice Ministry had requested that the court close down the Center based on claims that it had not filed reports on its activities in five [...]

US officials Monday denied a report by Seymour Hersh published in the New Yorker that the Bush administration is drawing up plans for military strikes against Iran that would use nuclear weapons to destroy the country's nuclear facilities and prevent Iran from gaining the capability to enrich uranium. President Bush said Monday the reports were [...]

Pro-democracy demonstrators in Nepal marched in the streets again on Monday for a fifth straight day to protest the direct rule government of King Gyanendra , defying curfews , tear gas and rubber bullets. Local press reports say that "scores" of protestors were injured and dozens arrested as they defied Gyanendra's ban on public meetings [...]

Charles Taylor , the former president of Liberia indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) , will challenge a prosecutor's motion that seeks to move his trial from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to The Hague in the Netherlands, his British lawyer announced Monday. Prosecutors told officials of the UN-backed court that a move from [...]

Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling testified in his own defense on Monday, asserting that he is "absolutely innocent" of fraud and conspiracy charges and added that he would "fight those charges until the day I die." Skilling also told jurors that former Enron executives who pleaded guilty to fraud charges and agreed to testify against [...]

A UK High Court judge on Monday overturned laws designed to fight the rising number of "sham marriages" within the United Kingdom, ruling that the rules discriminated against immigrants and were incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights . The laws, which took effect in February 2005, required people born outside the European Union [...]

Protests continued at 32 of France's 84 universities Monday, despite separate announcements from French President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin earlier in the day that the section of a recently-enacted law on equality of opportunity establishing the so-called First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche, CPE) would be "replaced." Rather than increasing the [...]

President Bush defended his decision to declassify intelligence regarding the Iraq war Monday, responding to allegations of wrongdoing revealed during the CIA leak case . Addressing students and foreign policy analysts at Johns Hopkins University, the president explained that he declassified portions of an October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate to defend his pre-war claims that [...]

Large numbers of immigrants and supporters assembled in cities across the United States Monday for a National Day of Action for Immigrant Justice , urging lawmakers to make it easier for the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants to live in the country legally. The demonstrations come in response to the ongoing debate in Congress [...]