Law & Society

Escalating violence forces UN to leave Syria. SYRIA. - Due to escalating violence over the past weeks, the United Nations monitors announced Saturday that they have to suspend the mission in Syria.

Egyptians have a choice between two candidates. EGYPT. - After over three decades of living under the autocratic dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians today go out to vote in the run-off elections that are expected to help Egypt make that final and definitive transition.

British Columbia courts says assisted-suicide ban discriminatory. BRISTIH COLUMBIA. - After 20 years of an existing ban on physician-assisted suicides, the Supreme Court of British Columbia ruled the law unconstitutional.