UK House Leader Geoff Hoon said Sunday that the government is open to compromise on a proposed addition to the draft Terrorism Bill that would allow police to detain terrorism suspects for...
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill that bans the sale or rental of violent video games to minors under the age of 17, and requires retailers to label violent games as...
A source close to the Iraqi Special Tribunal said Sunday that the trial of Saddam Hussein , scheduled for October 19th , might be adjourned after several days of procedural arguments. Hussein's...
The Iraqi government Sunday urged Iraqis to vote in the upcoming October 15 constitutional referendum and condemned insurgent groups for trying to reduce voter turnout. Iraqi government spokesman Laith Kuba said...
The UN Refugee Agency has criticized Australia for its strict policy of detaining illegal immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, in comments before an Australian parliamentary inquiry. David Wright, a representative of the UN High...
The Indonesian government cannot ban Islamic militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI) because the government never formally acknowledged the group's existence, Vice President Yusuf Kalla said Sunday. Australia has called on Indonesia to outlaw the group ,...
The US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky has ruled that the Holy See is a foreign state subject to immunity protections of the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act , placing limitations on...
Environmental Integrity Project v. Environmental Protection Agency, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, October 7, 2005 ....
Doe v. Gonzales, Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, October 7, 2005 [rejecting an emergency appeal filed by the ACLU on behalf of Connecticut libraries seeking to overturn a gag order that prevents a library involved...
Twenty-one Sunni Arab organizations Saturday jointly condemned the proposed Iraqi constitution , saying in a statement that it bears in it the germs of Iraq's division, the loss of its Arab identity and the plundering of its...