Government officials in Haiti have announced plans to form a commission to review the contested results of that country's February 7 election . The commission will be composed of members of the president's office, representatives from the Provisional Election Council (CEP) , and members of the political party of leading presidential candidate Rene Preval . [...]

BBC News is reporting that the UK House of Commons has voted to include the glorification of terrorism as a criminal offense in the proposed Terrorism Bill , overturning the House of Lords on the issue. The Lords last month voted against outlawing the glorification of terrorism over concerns that the offense could unduly limit [...]

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that a law permitting the German air force to shoot down hijacked planes to prevent a suicide attack was unconstitutional , reasoning that the government lacks the right to take the lives of passengers in an attempt to save lives on the ground. German ministers pushed through the legislation [...]

The US government has formally requested the extradition from Canada of Canadian citizen Abdullah Khadr , a week after indicting him on charges of procuring weapons to be used by al-Qaida against American forces in Afghanistan in 2003. Khadr, the son of alleged al-Qaida financier Ahmed Said Khadr and brother of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [...]

Leading Wednesday's international brief, Ugandan General Court Martial (GCM) Chairman Elly Tumwine has gone ahead with the trial of over 20 suspects accused of collaborating with Ugandan opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye on charges of terrorism and illegal possession of firearms despite a Ugandan Constitutional Court ruling that the proceedings are unconstitutional. The 20 men, [...]

Previously unpublished photographs and video depicting alleged abuse of prisoners by US personnel at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison were shown on Australian television Wednesday. In an effort to expose "the extent of the horror that occurred at Abu Ghraib," SBS television's Dateline program showed images of blood-soaked prisoners who had been tortured or shot and [...]

The number of alleged international terrorism suspects named in a centralized US database has more than quadrupled since the list's inception in 2003, according to a report in Wednesday's Washington Post. The list, compiled by the National Counterterrorism Center based on information from the CIA, FBI, NSA and other agencies, began with 75,000 names and [...]

A Jordan military court on Wednesday sentenced Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , the alleged head of al Qaeda in Iraq, and eight other men to death for conspiring to attack several sites in Jordan with explosives and toxic chemicals. Al-Zarqawi and three of the defendants were sentenced in absentia, but the other five, including the mastermind [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says it's high time for universities to proscribe not only discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, handicap or disability, age, or sexual orientation, but also discrimination based on political opinion… Have you seen the movie “Good Night, and Good Luck” [...]

Western businesses burned and three people were killed Wednesday as Pakistanis took to the streets in a third day of protests over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad . A man was shot dead in Lahore as violent clashes with police erupted during a rally of 1,500 students outside a university. In Peshawar near the Afghanistan [...]