Wire services are reporting that US District Judge Leonie Brinkema has ruled that the government can continue to seek the death penalty in the Zacarias Moussaoui case, but that the government aviation witnesses who were improperly coached by a Transportation Security Administration attorney would not be permitted to testify and other aviation related evidence will [...]

Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, the Iowa Administrative Rules Review Committee has agreed to allow a set of water quality rules to go into effect on March 22. The rules will bring Iowa into compliance with the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) . Amongst other differences, Iowa laws had been operating with a presumption that [...]

Judge James Ware of the US District Court of the Northern District of California said Tuesday after hearing arguments by Google and US Department of Justice lawyers over a government subpoena of search data that he might force Google to hand over a small part of its index of Web sites but would not grant [...]

Progress continues to be made in the investigation into the February 2005 Beirut bombing assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , according to an interim report presented to the UN Security Council Tuesday. Chief UN investigator Serge Brammertz , successor to German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, said that Syria has been complying with almost [...]

The government of Uganda has been intimidating members of the media since before the February 23 presidential elections , including filing criminal charges against some journalists for their work, according to a statement issued by Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tuesday. The watchdog group detailed several instances where the government has punished reporters, including denying an [...]

Microsoft said Tuesday that its request for a European antitrust hearing set for later this month to be public has been denied by the European Commission . The hearing is being held to give the software giant a chance to explain why it has not fully complied with a March 2004 European Union ruling ordering [...]

A government witness who was coached by a Federal Aviation Administration attorney on the US case against accused would-be hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui told US District Judge Leonie Brinkema Tuesday that she was not tainted by the extra information she received, echoing an early statement to prosecution lawyers that it would not affect her testimony. Lynne [...]

Israeli forces stormed a Palestinian prison in the West Bank Tuesday in an attempt to seize a Palestinian militant linked to the 2001 killing of an Israeli minister. The raid in Jericho came shortly after the US and UK withdrew prison monitors , citing security concerns. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the withdrawal of [...]

Students at 59 of France's 84 universities went on strike Tuesday, occupying and blockading about 50 of them in protest against a new law proposed by the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin that would allow companies to fire workers under the age of 26 within the first two years with little notice or [...]

Khalid el-Masri , a German national allegedly kidnapped in Macedonia in 2003, held by the CIA in Afghanistan and finally released in 2004 and dumped in Albania, testified Monday before a European Parliament committee investigating possible US renditions through Europe that he was interrogated by a German while detained. El-Masri testified that he identified Gerhard [...]