France's Interior Minister and anticipated 2007 French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has called for a compromise over a new youth labor law – the so-called First Employment Contract (contrat première embauche, CPE) – which among other things allows employers to fire at will employees under age 26 during the first two years of their employment. [...]

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Afghan officials said Sunday they were preparing to release a man possibly facing the death penalty for converting to Christianity from Islam after a judge sent the case of Abdul Rahman back to prosecutors, ruling that he lacked enough evidence to proceed. The Afghanistan attorney-general's office indicated that Rahman could be freed while it reviewed [...]

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The US Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing for Friday, March 31 on a resolution introduced by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) censuring President Bush for allegedly breaking the law with his warrantless domestic surveillance program . Feingold introduced the censure resolution in early March, but it received only a lukewarm reception from fellow Senate [...]

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A judge in Mississippi Friday issued the first federal ruling on insurance litigation related to the Hurricane Katrina disaster , denying a request from Allstate Insurance Co. to dismiss a case brought by homeowners claiming that Allstate representatives falsely led them to believe that flood damage would be covered by their hurricane insurance policy, and [...]

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The Federal Election Commission (FEC) Friday proposed new rules that would require federal political candidates to pay for internet advertisements out of funds regulated by federal campaign laws, but would otherwise leave most online political activity free from government regulation. Recently, a federal appeals court ordered the six-member FEC to create regulations that extend campaign [...]

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