The Bundestag , the German lower house of parliament, Friday approved a ban on marches by right-wing neo-Nazi groups at Holocaust memorial sites as fears increased that such marches would disrupt upcoming 60th anniversary observances of...

Vietnamese plaintiffs have condemned a US district judge's dismissal of their class action against Agent Orange manufacturers for alleged harms since the defoliant was used by the US military. The lawsuit against Dow Chemical and Monsanto among...

Authorities are reporting that several people were shot shortly after 9 AM ET at the Fulton County Court in Atlanta, GA. The District Attorney's office confirmed the shooting, but few details were released. Early media reports said...

The Pentagon wants to cut in half the number of detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay by tranferring many prisoners out of the country to facilities in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Yemen, according to a report published in Friday's...

Skeptics on and off Capitol Hill Thursday assailed a new report on military interrogation practices authored by US Navy chief of staff and former Inspector General Admiral Albert T. Church that effectively concluded that the Pentagon's civilian and military...

A proposed anti-terror law pitted the UK House of Lords and House of Commons against each other in a ferocious debate Thursday night and Friday morning as amended and re-amended versions of the Prevention of Terrorism Bill [official text...

Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, passed by the US Senate, March 10, 2005 [making it harder for those in debt to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy eliminating almost all debts, and instead requiring them to file...

Executive summary of a report by Vice Admiral Albert T. Church on DOD interrogation operations, March 10, 2005 [indicating that he had no evidence to suggest that senior Pentagon civilian or military officials encouraged or pressured lower-level officers to do...

Canada honored four slain RCMP officers Thursday afternoon in a nationally-televised memorial service attended by Prime Minister Paul Martin, Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson representing the Queen, and 10,000 police officers from Canada, the United States and around...

The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin et al. v. The Dow Chemical Company et al., United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Judge Jack B. Weinstien, March 10, 2005 [dismissing a lawsuit filed on...