UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke Monday proposed the banning of 15 global terror organizations, submitting a draft list to Parliament of groups to be prohibited under the Terrorism Act 2000 . Clarke cited "recent events in London and elsewhere in the world" as the impetus for the proposal since "the threat posed by global terrorism [...]

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In the latest reversal for African asylum seekers heading for Europe, the north African state of Morocco Monday began deporting potential immigrants, sending a plane carrying 140 West Africans off to Senegal. A second flight carrying another 140 Senegalese was to take off for Dakar later Monday and another 600 migrants are slated for deportation [...]

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Former head of Russia oil giant Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky was transferred Monday from the pre-trial detention facility where he was being held, reportedly to the prison where he will serve his 8-year sentence for tax evasion and fraud. When members of the legal team representing Khodorkovsky's jailed colleague, Platon Lebedev, attempted to speak to their [...]

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JURIST Guest Columnist Eileen Gauna of Southwestern University School of Law. now visiting at the University of New Mexico, says that the Hurricane Katrina disaster is a classic instance of environmental injustice, the longstanding pattern whereby people of color and the poor are exposed to greater environmental risk while receiving fewer environmental amenities… Katrina was [...]

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