International Court Of Justice

The International Court of Justice ruled Monday that the United States violated its order last year when Texas proceeded with the execution of a Mexican national convicted of murder and rape. The court, based in The Hague, said the United States remains bound by a 2004 ruling to review the cases of 51 Mexican citizens on death row despite its failure to do so in the past.

BOGOTA, Colombia - In a ruling that gave each side some of what it wanted, the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Monday upheld Colombia's sovereignty over seven Caribbean islands but ordered that Nicaragua's maritime boundary be redrawn to give it more offshore territory. Ending a case that first came before the court in 1999, the ruling gives Nicaragua additional access to fishing grounds and potentially huge reserves of natural gas that Colombian government studies say reside below the ocean floor in the disputed area.

A divided U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution asking the International Court of Justice to examine the legal consequences of Israel's construction of a barrier that juts into the West Bank. The vote was 90 to 8, with 74 abstentions, reflecting uneasiness in many nations on referring the issue to the World Court, based in The Hague. Its opinion would not be legally binding. The U.S.

The International Court of Justice ruled Monday that the United States violated its order last year when Texas proceeded with the execution of a Mexican national convicted of murder and rape. The court, based in The Hague, said the United States remains bound by a 2004 ruling to review the cases of 51 Mexican citizens on death row despite its failure to do so in the past.

Nicaragua told the World Court in The Hague that it is dropping its case against Costa Rica, in which the Sandinista government accused its Central American neighbor of tolerating U.S.-backed contra operations on its territory. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega had said his government would drop the case in the wake of last week's five-nation peace plan for Central America.

The International Court of Justice said that Yugoslavia has started proceedings against NATO, accusing members of breaching the U.N. Charter by threatening to use force in Bosnia-Herzegovina without Security Council authorization. The court said in a statement that Yugoslavia, now made up of Serbia and Montenegro, has filed suit against NATO's member states for issuing an ultimatum threatening to bomb Serbian artillery encircling Sarajevo. Yugoslavia says the ultimatum breached U.N.

The World Court in the Netherlands ordered the United States Wednesday to stay the executions of three Mexicans -- two in Texas and one in Oklahoma -- and reserved the right to intervene in dozens of more cases. Mexico took the U.S. government to the International Court of Justice at The Hague last month, saying more than 50 of its nationals on death row should get retrials because U.S. authorities breached an international treaty by failing to tell them of their rights to consular help.

Philip Caryl Jessup, a judge on the International Court of Justice and veteran U.S. diplomat who was credited with playing a major role in ending the Soviet blockade of West Berlin, has died. He was 89. Jessup, who died Jan. 31 at his home here, had been suffering from Parkinson's disease. He was an authority on international law and for many years was a professor at Columbia University. Jessup was a U.S.

The Soviet Union announced Wednesday that it will accept the authority of the World Court over five major human rights treaties, ending 40 years of resistance to the court's jurisdiction. State Department officials hailed the move as a step toward an eventual agreement under which Moscow would join Washington in accepting the court's rulings in all but the most sensitive political and national security cases. The U.N. legal office released a letter from Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A.

A traveler's worst nightmare would be to be far from home in a strange land and suddenly arrested by draconian authorities. What American, if detained overseas, wouldn't welcome an immediate jail visit by a U.S. consul? So, if fair is fair, aren't foreigners entitled to the same treatment if arrested here? But, in fact, there are questions about treatment of dozens of foreigners jailed and facing this land's ultimate penalty, the U.N.'s International Court of Justice in The Hague has found.

Elevating tensions with its neighbor, the Peruvian government filed suit in international court against Chile on Wednesday, demanding a greater share of rich fishing waters in the Pacific Ocean. The act sparked outrage in Santiago, where officials vowed to defend the current maritime boundaries. Peru filed its petition at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, a body set up to resolve disputes between United Nations member states.

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up an unusual death penalty case that puts President Bush, the Mexican government and a rapist and murderer from Houston on the same team in a legal battle against the state of Texas. At issue is whether Texas must abide by a ruling from the International Court of Justice in the Hague and reconsider a death sentence meted out to a convicted killer who is a native of Mexico.

The Supreme Court said Monday that it might put off a decision on whether 51 Mexican nationals on death row in California, Texas and several other states were entitled to reopen their cases because of a ruling by the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Instead, the justices said the state courts in Texas should take up the matter first to deal with an unusual order by President Bush.

The General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a nonbinding resolution Tuesday demanding that Israel bow to a world court ruling and tear down the barrier it is constructing in the West Bank. Israel immediately condemned the U.N. resolution, and the U.S. called it a distraction from Mideast peace efforts. The vote was 150 nations in favor, six opposed and 10 abstaining. Besides Israel and the U.S., the other "no" votes came from Australia, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau.

The International Court of Justice ruled here Friday that Israel's separation barrier in the occupied West Bank violated freedom of movement and should be demolished because it threatened a "de facto annexation" of Palestinian lands for Jewish settlements.

A traveler's worst nightmare would be to be far from home in a strange land and suddenly arrested by draconian authorities. What American, if detained overseas, wouldn't welcome an immediate jail visit by a U.S. consul? So, if fair is fair, aren't foreigners entitled to the same treatment if arrested here? But, in fact, there are questions about treatment of dozens of foreigners jailed and facing this land's ultimate penalty, the U.N.'s International Court of Justice in The Hague has found.

The General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a nonbinding resolution Tuesday demanding that Israel bow to a world court ruling and tear down the barrier it is constructing in the West Bank. Israel immediately condemned the U.N. resolution, and the U.S. called it a distraction from Mideast peace efforts. The vote was 150 nations in favor, six opposed and 10 abstaining. Besides Israel and the U.S., the other "no" votes came from Australia, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau.

One day after the International Court of Justice ruled that the sentences of 51 Mexicans on death row should be reconsidered, a California attorney general's spokesman said his office planned to consult with prosecutors around the state to determine applicable cases. The Hague court ruled that the sentences should be reviewed because Mexicans were illegally deprived of assistance from the Mexican Consulate. Atty. Gen.

In a rebuke of the U.S. legal system, the International Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that 51 Mexicans on death row in California and other U.S. states were illegally deprived of consular assistance and that their sentences should immediately be "reviewed and reconsidered." It was unclear, however, whether the decision would spare the prisoners' lives or even force new trials.