Governor Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana signed a bill Saturday that could ban most abortions in the state. The bill, which would apply to all abortions except when the life of the mother...
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A trial began Saturday for 14 Egyptians charged with helping the men who carried out two bombings in the city of Cairo in April 2005 that left 10 people and the two bombers dead. Tourists appeared to...
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin offered an implied criticism of the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay in a speech to the Institute of Higher Studies of National Defense [official...
Two weeks after the arrests of 17 Canadians on terrorism-related charges in the Toronto area, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Friday announced that his government will step up anti-terrorism efforts in Canada by...
The upper chamber of the French parliament adopted a controversial immigration bill Friday after the French National Assembly voted overwhelmingly to approve the measure ...
Defense attorneys representing two US Marines accused of killing an Iraqi civilian in Hamandiya this spring claim that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service interrogated their clients under coercive conditions, including making threats about the death penalty. Attorneys...
Resolution 1688 (2006), UN Security Council, June 16, 2006 [authorizing the pending war crimes trial of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor to be shifted from the facilities of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to the facilities...
US Department of Defense documents released Friday chronicle multiple mistreatments of Iraqi prisoners by US personnel in 2003 and 2004 but stop short of labeling the instances of mistreatment illegal, describing them instead as "wrong." Over 1000 pages of...
The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously agreed to a resolution authorizing the pending war crimes trial of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor to be shifted from the facilities of...
Nepal's government and the Maoist rebels on Friday agreed to draft an interim constitution within 15 days and dissolve the parliament reinstated by the popular people's uprising in April this year. Surprisingly, the Maoists ,...
