The US House Energy and Commerce Committee Wednesday voted 38-12 to approve the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act , a bill that would give the Food and Drug...
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Bangladeshi authorities Thursday released a cartoonist detained for allegedly insulting the Muslim prophet Muhammad after the police official pressing charges against him repeatedly failed to appear in court. Arifur Rahman was arrested in September after...
Belarus grants temporary release to opposition politician jailed over protests
Belarusian authorities Tuesday granted jailed opposition politician Alexander Kozulin a three-day release from prison to attend the funeral of his wife, who died on Saturday. Kozulin was sentenced to over five years in prison in...
US, EU renew calls for release of Belarus political prisoners
The US Embassy in Minsk and European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighborhood Policy Benita Ferrero-Waldner issued renewed calls Monday for Belarus to release all political prisoners currently in custody. US and EU officials...
Belarus releases newspaper editor jailed for reprinting Muhammad cartoons
The Supreme Court of Belarus Friday ordered a former newspaper editor who had been had been sentenced to three years in prison for reprinting cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad to be released, his lawyer...
Supreme Court rules in preemption, ERISA retirement plan cases
The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in five cases Wednesday, including Rowe v. New Hampshire Motor Transport Association , where the Court held that federal law preempts two provisions...
Denmark paper reprints Muhammad drawings after cartoonist murder plot thwarted
Danish newspaper Jyllands-Poste reprinted a cartoon Wednesday drawn by Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard one day after Danish police arrested three people suspected in a plot to murder Westergaard for his characterization of Muhammad. Westergaard...
Denmark police arrest suspects in alleged plot to kill Muhammad cartoonist
Danish police on Tuesday arrested several people suspected in a plot to murder Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, one of the 12 cartoonists who published cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad in 2005 that sparked widespread protests...
Belarus newspaper editor sentenced to 3 years for reprinting Muhammad cartoons
A Belarus court on Friday sentenced a former newspaper editor to three years in prison for reprinting cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad . Alexander Sdvizhkov was the deputy editor of Zhoda, a small Belarus newspaper, when in...
Turkish President Abdullah Gul Friday signed a bill banning smoking in government buildings, offices, bars and restaurants. The bill was passed by the Turkish Grand National Assembly earlier this month. The ban includes...