Former Israeli army General Doron Almog said Monday that he had narrowly escaped arrest on war crimes charges after arriving Sunday at London's Heathrow airport for a planned UK vacation. Allegedly tipped off by British government contacts, Israel's ambassador to Britain boarded the plane on the tarmack and warned Almog that British officers were waiting [...]

As US Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings commenced Monday for nominee John Roberts , Democrats and Republicans sparred over the appropriateness of questioning Roberts about controversial issues such as privacy rights and abortion. Roberts, who was nominated by President Bush to serve as the 17th Chief Justice of the United States in the wake of [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has extended the reasonable search and seizure rights established under the Fourth Amendment to defendants awaiting trial on criminal charges. The 2-1 decision held that police may not conduct a search based on less than probable cause of a defendant released and awaiting trial, even if [...]

AP is reporting that FEMA Director Michael Brown has resigned from the agency after being replaced last week as the on-site head of federal Hurricane Katrina relief and recovery efforts. 5:15 PM ET – President Bush has named R. David Paulison , head of FEMA's emergency preparedness force, Administrator of the US Fire Administration and [...]

The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice released a report Monday revealing that federal agents frequently violate the FBI's guidelines for dealing with confidential informants. After assessing 120 confidential informant files from FBI offices around the country, Inspector General Glenn A. Fine said the investigation revealed that 87 percent of cases [...]

US Pentagon officials are in the final stages of determining whether to implement a new weapons program that would mandate the production of a new era of landmines, dubbed "networked munitions", in the face of international opposition to such weapons. Doreen Chaplin, division chief for network munitions in the Army, said the new program, entitled [...]

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Judge Alphons Orie has confirmed and unsealed indictments against Croatian journalists Josip Jovic and Marijan Krizic. Jovic and Krizic, charged with one count each of contempt of the tribunal under Rule 77 of the UN court's Rules of Procedure and Evidence for allegedly revealing the identity of a [...]

Kyrgyz Prime Minister Felix Kulov said Monday that Kyrgyzstan will decide on the fate of 15 Uzbek refugees trilaterally through the opinions of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Kyrgyz and Uzbek General Prosecutor's Offices. The 15 refugees were detained after fleeing Uzbekistan following an uprising in the eastern city [...]

Intensive talks directed at salvaging a consensus draft document for the 2005 United Nations World Summit broke down Monday over differences on human rights and management reform, according to a spokesman for the US UN mission . Rick Grenell said that Egypt, China, Russia, and Pakistan have objected to a US-supported requirement of a two-thirds [...]

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