The US Air Force on Thursday released revised interim guidelines concerning the free exercise of religion in the Air Force which remove several restrictions on the promotion of religious beliefs. The revised guidelines, endorsed by the National Conference on Ministry to the Armed Forces , remove a warning for top officers about promoting personal religious [...]

After receiving a royal pardon, Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy returned home to Cambodia Friday after a year of self-imposed exile in France. Sam Rainsy had fled to France after his parliamentary immunity was revoked for accusing Prime Minister Hun Sen of trying to kill him in 1997. He also accused Prince Norodom Ranariddh , [...]

A long-term renewal of the USA Patriot Act now seems likely as four key Republican senators who had been holding out on approving an extension have reached an agreement with the White House. Sixteen key provisions of the Patriot Act were set to expire at the end of last year, but members of Congress were [...]

Court documents filed by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the CIA leak case show that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, testified to a federal grand jury that he was authorized by superiors to leak information contained in a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) to reporters in the summer of [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday instructed a lower court to reconsider a challenge to Georgia's controversial voter ID law that required voters to show government-issued photo identification before casting their ballots, but left in place an injunction barring the law's enforcement. The three-judge panel instructed the lower court to [...]

Belgium is set to become the fourteenth European Union country to ratify the European Constitution following its approval by the lower house of the Flemish Parliament . The constitutional treaty was approved Wednesday by a majority of 84 to 29. Approval by Belgium is viewed as a much needed boost for the Constitution after it [...]

In an apparent political climbdown, UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke has approved publication of proposed amendments to the controversial British Identity Cards Bill that would require another Act of Parliament be passed to make the cards mandatory. The bill currently requires that anyone obtaining a British passport from 2008 onward also receive an ID card, [...]

Agreement Between the Attorney General of the State of New York and American International Group Inc., announced February 9, 2006 . Read the full text of the settlement agreement . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin Thursday presented a draft bill to the French cabinet introducing the concept of selective immigration . Under the proposed bill, immigration by highly skilled workers and educated professionals would be favored, but the poor and unskilled from outside the European Union (traditionally, the Middle East and Africa) would no [...]

A senior Italian judicial source who asked not to be named has said that the 22 CIA agents accused of kidnapping Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr in Milan and transporting him out of the country in 2003 in an instance of extraordinary rendition may be tried in absentia in proceedings that could begin within a month. [...]