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France's Interior Minister and anticipated 2007 French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has called for a compromise over a new youth labor law - the so-called First Employment Contract (contrat première embauche, CPE)...

More than 500,000 pro-immigration activists took to the streets in Los Angeles on Saturday to protest Congressional efforts to crack down on illegal immigration . The protest came in anticipation of Senate debate on a reform...

Riot police and demonstrators clashed Saturday in the Belarus capital city of Minsk as thousands of citizens gathered again to protest alleged election fraud in last Sunday's presidential elections in which current President Alexander...

US Chief Justice John Roberts has appointed US District Judge and former Whitewater prosecutor John D. Bates to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to replace US District Judge James Robertson ,...

Fresh talks between French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and French trade union leaders over the new First Employment Contract (CPE) labor law ended in deadlock Friday with the government...

Early Friday morning local time, Belarus police swept down on hundreds of demonstrators camped out in Minsk's Oktyabrskaya Square in protest against the results of last Sunday's presidential elections which returned Alexander Lukashenko [official website; BBC...

JURIST Guest Columnist Richard Seamon of the University of Idaho School of Law says that in light of ever-increasing evidence of detainee abuse by US personnel or parties acting with the approval or complicity of the United States, Congress should...

The Belarus Central Election Commission has dismissed a complaint contesting the results of Sunday's election, which provided a landslide victory for Alexander Lukashenko , who garnered over 82 percent of the vote. The complaint,...

For the fourth day in a row, hundreds of protestors gathered at a central square in Minsk on Wednesday to oppose what they claimed were the rigged results of the Belarus presidential election, defying...

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin indicated Tuesday that he might back off from his previous insistence on a provision of the First Employment Contract (CPE) he guided through Parliament...