South Dakota governor Mike Rounds has signed into law a bill limiting protests during funerals. SB 156 was passed in response to recent picketing at the funerals of US soldiers who died in Iraq, and will ban protests within 1,000 feet of a funeral from one hour before until four hours after the ceremony. The [...]

Former Nepal prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was released from prison Tuesday in the wake of Monday's ruling by the Nepal Supreme Court declaring the Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC) set up by Nepal's King Gyanendra unconstitutional . The former Prime Minister was arrested last July, found guilty of corruption and given a two [...]

A UK parliamentary report released Tuesday concludes that British control orders confining and/or regulating the conduct of suspected terrorists who cannot be prosecuted in courts may violate the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) . Eighteen control orders have so far been issued by UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke since the Prevention of Terrorism Act [...]

US Vice President Dick Cheney has received a citation for breaking a Texas hunting law by not having the proper stamp giving him permission to shoot quail. The warning was issued by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department after hearing news that the Vice President shot fellow hunter and Republican lawyer Harry Whittington over the [...]

The Islamic Supreme Council of Canada (ISCC) has filed a complaint against the Canadian Western Standard magazine over its republication of Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Other Canadian media have refused to publish the cartoons, but Western Standard publisher Ezra Levant said Tuesday the magazine was publishing the cartoons because they were newsworthy for [...]

Yemen officials have denied an American request to interrogate detainees taken into custody after the escape of 23 prisoners , including suspected al Qaeda members, from a Yemen prison earlier this month. A Yemen security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said authorities rejected the US request because it would have violated Yemen's sovereignty. US [...]

Haitian presidential candidate Rene Preval , currently leading in the official count from the February 7 election with 48.76 percent of the votes , said Tuesday that the poll was plagued by "gross errors and probably gigantic fraud." Preval, a former president and close ally of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide , also said he would [...]

US District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled Tuesday that Zacarias Moussaoui will no longer be allowed to be present in the courtroom for jury selection in his sentencing trial after Moussaoui walked out of a pretrial hearing. Moussaoui pleaded guilty last April to conspiring with al Qaeda to use aircraft to target United States buildings and [...]

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has called for abolition of the country's criminal defamation law that was used to jail four government critics in January. Hun Sen said the offense should be made a civil one punishable by fine, continuing a softening of his initial support for the prosecutions . Hun Sen called for the [...]

Kenyan police have placed a travel ban on more than 20 officials as investigations continue into government corruption. Police told some 20 officials allegedly linked to the Goldenberg affair , a multi-million gold and diamond scam, not to leave the country. Among those under the ban is former Education Minister George Saitoti, who resigned Monday [...]