Italian police executed 200 search warrants across the country Wednesday, searching for illegal arms and explosives, the public security department for the Italian Interior Ministry announced. The raids did not lead to any immediate arrests but police are investigating a range of crimes from falsifying documents to terrorism, primarily in Milan, Rome, Turin and Naples. [...]

The pro-hunting Countryside Alliance Wednesday challenged Britain's recent ban on fox hunting with dogs in the House of Lords Wednesday by questioning the Parliament Act , the law that allowed the lower house of parliament, the House of Commons, to pass the legislation over the objection of the upper chamber. "The challenge to the Parliament [...]

Police in the Netherlands announced Wednesday the arrest of a 17-year-old boy as part of an investigation into the Hofstad terrorist group that killed filmmaker Theo van Gogh . Police found a homemade bomb in the boy's room. Although he was investigated for publishing extremist Muslim texts on the Internet, they doubt he is a [...]

Parliamentary members of Zimbabwe's ruling African National Union-Patriotic Front party Tuesday defeated an opposition proposal that would have ended the government's controversial home demolition program . "Operation Restore Order" has resulted in 30,000 arrests of illegal squatters and merchants, and left anywhere from 300,000 to 1 million people homeless. The government has defended the plan [...]

A New York prosecutor Tuesday dropped all charges against New Paltz Mayor Jason West, who could have faced jail time for marrying gay couples on the steps of the village hall. In May 2005, 24 misdemeanor counts were filed against West for violating the state's domestic relations law by marrying couples without licenses, making him [...]

Human rights groups including the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network and Human Rights Watch have urged UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to support a UN panel's recommendation for an international tribunal to investigate atrocities committed after East Timorese voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999. Indonesia opposes such a tribunal , and activist groups [...]

Speaking in the British House of Commons Wednesday one day after police revealed that the perpetrators of the London bombings were British nationals, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said his government would tighten border controls to keep out individuals preaching religious hatred and would take steps to deport from the United Kingdom those already doing [...]

Judge William G. Young, chief judge of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston, issued a 107-page ruling Tuesday chastising Congress for a "virtually unprecedented" attack on judicial independence and for putting a "chokehold" on federal courts by removing their authority to hear deportation cases. Young says the recently-passed Real ID [...]

Near the end of his trial in Amsterdam Tuesday, Muslim extremist Mohammed Bouyeri confessed to the November 2004 murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh , saying "if I were released and would have the chance to do it again. . . I would do exactly the same thing." Bouyeri added that he stabbed, shot [...]

Corbell v. Norton, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, July 12, 2005 . Excerpt: But when one strips away the convoluted statutes, the technical legal complexities, the elaborate collateral proceedings, and the layers upon layers of interrelated orders and opinions from this Court and the Court of Appeals, what remains is the [...]