Slovenian Interior Minister Dragutin Mate said Friday that a European Union plan to archive and exchange air passenger data had general support among EU ministers and could take effect as early as 2009. Interior ministers from EU...
Pakistani lawyers demonstrated in Islamabad Thursday to protest the continued detention of ousted Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry . The government of Pakistan has kept Chaudhry and several other judges and lawyers under preventative detention...
US District Judge Richard W. Roberts on Thursday ordered the government to submit a report to the court by February 14 detailing why the CIA destroyed videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects , whether...
The Mexican military has committed grave human rights abuses, including the torture, rape and murder of civilians, according to a report from the Mexican National Human Rights Commission submitted to the Mexican National Congress. According...
Executive Order: Further Amendment of Executive Order 11858 Concerning Foreign Investment in the United States, signed by George W. Bush, January 23, 2008 . Read the...
Choose Life of Missouri, Inc., et al., v. Trish Vincent, et al., US District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Western Division, January 23, 2008 [ruling that Missouri cannot deny an anti-abortion group's application for specialty license plate with...
The Bangladesh Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the extortion trial of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina could continue, rejecting arguments by Hasina's lawyers that she could not be tried under the...
Dutch parliamentarians called for changes to the countrys terrorism laws Thursday in response to a Wednesday appeals court decision overturning the convictions of seven men suspected of belonging to the Dutch Muslim Hofstad Network . The...
US President George W. Bush will request an additional $200 million dollars in federal funding to help state and local authorities combat violent crime, US Attorney General Michael Mukasey announced Thursday in remarks to the...
Turkey Thursday lifted a nationwide ban imposed last week on the popular video-sharing website YouTube . Last week, a Turkish court ordered Turk Telecom to block access to YouTube in reported response to video...