Second Lt. Erick J. Anderson has been charged with premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit premeditated murder for the shooting of a wounded Iraqi man, the US military said Monday. The military has been investigating whether Anderson gave permission to two soldiers to shoot an injured Iraqi man, whom they thought would die anyway from [...]

CNN is reporting that US Secretary of State Colin Powell has submitted his resignation. 9:48 AM ET – Powell told aides Monday morning that he intends to resign from President Bush's cabinet and will leave once Bush decides on who will succeed him. AP has more. 10:20 AM ET – AP is now reporting that [...]

The trial of three former Kosovo Albanian rebels began Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague. The three former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Fatmir Limaj, Haradin Bala and Isak Musliu, are accused of participating in a joint criminal enterprise to target Serb civilians, and perceived Albanian collaborators, [...]

Britain's Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) opened a public consultation Monday on whether court proceedings in England and Wales should be broadcast. Additionally, a five-week trial installation of cameras will begin Tuesday in the Court of Appeal in the Royal Courts of Justice in London, where criminal appeals and civil cases will be filmed, but [...]

Iran's promise to suspend its uranium enrichment activities (see this report on JURIST's Paper Chase) will satisfy some demands of the International Atomic Energy Agency, according to a confidential IAEA report. In the report, Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the UN watchdog agency, writes that all nuclear material declared by Iran to the IAEA has been [...]

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Monday, November 15. The US Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will hold a 12 PM ET hearing on Saddam Hussein's abuse of the UN Oil-for-Food program. Charles Duelfer, chief weapons inspector in Iraq, is scheduled to testify. [...]

African Union leaders meeting in Nigeria Sunday called for an immediate UN arms embargo against the warring government and rebels in Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). The current UN Security Council embargo proposal, scheduled for a vote on Monday, imposes sanctions on the parties beginning on December 10. But summit leaders have requested prompt action to [...]

Iran announced Sunday that it has submitted a letter to the UN stating that it would suspend uranium enrichment activities as part of a deal with the European Union to avoid UN Security Council sanctions. Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rohani, said the suspension will remain as long as talks with the EU over Iran's [...]

The White House has ordered new CIA director Porter Goss to eliminate officers from the CIA who are believed to have been disloyal to President Bush or to have leaked to the media damaging information about the conduct of operations in the Middle East, according to former CIA officials quoted in press reports Sunday. One [...]

A California group that wants to amend the US Constitution to allow foreign born citizens to run for president is sponsering a series of television ads designed to rally public support. The ads will run in California starting Monday, and will urge residents to give Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and other foreign-born citizens the right to [...]