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JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says in this excerpt from her recent testimony to the US House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties that not only the high...

The Bush administration has asked Congress to shield Libya from a measure in the newly-passed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 that would allow victims of state-sponsored terrorism to...

The Cuban National Assembly on Sunday, by a unanimous show of hands, officially voted Raul Castro , 76, to the position of president, and also chose Jose Ramon Machado Ventura , 76, as the first vice president....

The United States and several key European Union powers formally recognized Kosovo as a sovereign state Monday, one day after the Assembly of Kosovo unilaterally declared Kosovo's independence from Serbia. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...

Iraq's three-member Presidency Council said Sunday that a bill allowing most former members of Saddam Huessein's Baath party to be reinstated to public life has become law. The controversial Accountability and Justice Law , passed by the...

Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) , Wednesday expressed optimism after completing a two-day visit to Washington DC to speak with top US officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Tuesday praised a bill passed Saturday by the Iraqi parliament that would allow most members of Saddam Hussein's now-defunct Baath Party to be reinstated to...

Lawyers for Canadian citizen Maher Arar argued before a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that Arar should be allowed to revive his lawsuit against senior officials in...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that he views a decision by US lawmakers to postpone debate on a resolution labeling as genocide the World War I-era killings of...

US State Department officials Saturday expressed concern and skepticism about Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's decision to declare emergency rule in Pakistan and suspend the country's constitution in a move largely designed to thwart an increasingly activist Pakistani...