Search Results for: 2006-03-07

A Connecticut Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday that civil unions do not harm same-sex couples, saying that they "share the same benefits, protections and responsibilities" as married couples. Judge Patty Jenkins Pittman further wrote that...

A three-judge panel of the California Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Monday in six cases focusing on same-sex marriage - the first time a California appeals court has considered...

An Italian judge ruled Friday that former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi should stand trial in November on alleged embezzlement, false accounting, tax fraud and money laundering charges in connection with a TV rights...

The German Bundesrat , the upper house of parliament, approved a landmark package of constitutional reforms aimed at separating and clarifying the powers of the federal and state governments. The legislation passed the lower...

Thirty-eight people were convicted of corruption Wednesday for rigging public works contracts to finance political parties while now-French President Jacques Chirac was mayor of Paris in the late 1980s and early '90s. Prosecutors alleged that...

Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute is set for Wednesday's start of the official legal count of ballots cast in Sunday's disputed presidential election after preliminary results led to the two main...

A Chinese Cabinet official said Monday that a draft law imposing fines on media organizations for covering sudden emergencies without approval from the local government would also apply to international news organizations. It is not clear, however,...

A US military lawyer for David Hicks said the US government cannot legally prosecute the Australian-born Guantanamo detainee again because a trial would constitute double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution. The...

Seventeen Cambodian judges and 10 others from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Japan, Poland, Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, and the US who will serve on the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal were sworn in Monday in...

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic ordered the 2000 killing of communist-era Serbian President Ivan Stambolic , his former mentor, to consolidate his hold on power in the former Yugoslavia, Serbia's Supreme Court said in a...