The French National Assembly voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to tighten immigration requirements for unskilled workers. The Senate is expected to consider the bill next month. If adopted, the measure would allow only...
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Members of a European Parliament delegation just back from a visit to the US told reporters in Strasbourg Wednesday that CIA officials had confirmed to them "that between 30 and 50 people have...
Microsoft must abide by the terms of its 2002 antitrust settlement with the US Justice Department through November 2009, a federal judge said Wednesday. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly...
Jury deliberations in the trial of former Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling began Wednesday after government prosecutors and defense lawyers finished closing arguments. Lay and Skilling have been charged ...
Visitors to Japan will be electronically fingerprinted and photographed under a bill approved Wednesday by the House of Councillors , the upper house of Japan's parliament. Foreign visitors 16 and older will have their fingerprints...
A disciplinary hearing for two Egyptian judges who complained of alleged fraud in last year's parliamentary elections is set to resume amid renewed clashes between riot police and the judges' supporters . The judges, Mahmoud Mekki...
The Supreme Court of Utah has ruled that the state's ban on polygamy is constitutional in a decision upholding the bigamy conviction of a former police officer. The court was asked to decide whether Utah's...
Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez has said that if President Bush's decision to send 6,000 National Guard troops to the US-Mexican border results in a militarization of the area, Mexico would file...
Chinese Internet journalist Yang Tianshui, a member of China's chapter of International PEN , was sentenced to twelve years in prison on Tuesday on charges that he attempted to "subvert state power" by posting essays on the Internet...
An unidentified attacker on Wednesday shot five judges in the Council of State , Turkey's highest administrative court located in Ankara. The wounded judges are all from the same court chamber, which deals with education issues and in...
