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In anticipation of the upcoming Commonwealth Games scheduled to start in Melbourne March 15, the Parliament of Australia has rushed through a bill making domestic deployment of the Australian Defence Force...

A Pennsylvania appeals court ruled Monday that the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority violated the constitutional separation of church and state when it seized a woman's home to help Hope Partnership for Education , a religious group, build...

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw denied Friday that he withheld any information from Parliament concerning Britain's involvement in secret CIA rendition flights and also said that there had not been any flights through Britain...

The father of John Walker Lindh , the American caught fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, called on President Bush Thursday to grant his son clemency and commute his 20 year sentence in...

Memo on rendition and extraordinary rendition, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, December 2005 [concluding that while undertaking or cooperating with extraordinary rendition of terror suspects to countries where they could face a real risk of torture could never be legal...

A leaked UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office memo says that while undertaking or cooperating with extraordinary rendition of terror suspects to countries where they could face a real risk of torture could never be...

Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) filed a complaint Tuesday against Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly , seeking to overturn Reilly's September decision to allow a ballot initiative...

The United Kingdom and Lebanon have signed a memorandum of understanding that specifies that non-UK citizens deported from Britain to Lebanon will not be mistreated. According to a foreign office spokesperson in London, the agreement seeks...

Tammy Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District et al., United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Judge John E. Jones III, December 20, 2005 [ruling that "intelligent design" cannot constitutionally be taught in biology classes...

AP is reporting that a federal judge has ruled that "intelligent design" cannot be taught in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district. US District Judge John E. Jones III ruled Tuesday that the Dover Area School District...