UK to issue more control orders, pitch new EU anti-terror measures after London bombings
Although new legislation is not being brought forward immediately , UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke is likely to issue more control orders, and will present new anti-terrorism measures to the European Union next week, according to...
Leading Friday's states brief, Florida Governor Jeb Bush Friday signed legislation overhauling Florida's state growth and development guidelines for the first time in twenty years. The legislation calls for $1.5 billion of state money to be spent...
International brief ~ Zimbabwe opposition to boycott opening of parliament
Leading Wednesday's international brief, the leading opposition party in Zimbabwe , the Movement for Democratic Change has announced its intention to boycott the opening of the Zimbabwean Parliament Thursday morning by Zimbabwe President Robert...
Canadian judge lifts publication ban on sponsorship scandal testimony
Justice John Gomery Thursday ordered a partial lifting of a publication ban prohibiting the dissemination of testimony provided on a sponsorship scandal that has created significant political problems for Canada's governing Liberal Party. Canadians had previously...
International brief ~ Israel to release hundreds of Palestinian detainees
In Thursday's international brief, Israel has announced its approval of a plan to release as many as 900 detained Palestinians in coming weeks. The details of the exact number of prisoners to be released, and the conditions...
French Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin has called on French lawmakers to back a new proposal to break up all neo-Nazi groups numbering some 3,000 in France. De Villepin said the groups were...
Denmark's High Court ruled Friday that Danish supermarket chain Dansk Supermarked Group has the right to ban employees from wearing religious headscarves, saying that the legislature "has weighed the right of an employer to demand a uniform...
The Quebec Court of Appeal Tuesday began hearing an appeal challenging the constitutionality of Canada's 1997 Tobacco Act. Lawyers for Canada's three largest tobacco companies told the court that the law, which bans tobacco sponsorship, restricts advertising and requires...
By a voice vote Friday, the US House of Representatives passed a Senate bill that reinstates until 2007 a ban on all state and local taxes aimed at monthly usage fees paid by customers to Internet service providers. President...
