A Belgian court has convicted three men for being members of an Islamic group connected to terror attacks in Casablanca in May 2003 and Madrid in March 2004. The men were on trial for their alleged...
The UN High Commission on Refugees has expressed alarm at Ukraine's deportation of 10 Uzbek asylum-seekers to Uzbekistan where they may face torture and abuse, alleging the deportations violated international...
French Justice Minister Pascal Clement has responded to a new Council of Europe (COE) report released on Wednesday criticizing France's human rights record by calling it "unfair". The 100 page report...
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov Wednesday told the Duma , Russia's lower house, that Russian society was to blame for instances of military conscript abuse and hazing that have scandalized the...
The European Union (EU) is voicing reservations about human rights in Belarus in the wake of a growing number of reports of abuses there. At the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday,...
Microsoft responded Wednesday to European Commission (EC) complaints of non-compliance with orders from a 2004 EC antitrust ruling to produce technical data by insisting in a 75-page report that the EC had...
Microsoft must provide a written answer to EU complaints that it has failed to comply with an antitrust ruling against the software giant by midnight European time Wednesday or risk daily fines of up to 2...
British MPs voted Tuesday by an overwhelming margin to ban smoking in all public enclosed spaces beginning in the summer of 2007. Prime Minister Tony Blair , Chancellor Gordon Brown , and Home Secretary Charles Clark...
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...
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...
