The US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held Thursday in a 2-1 opinion that state rules on participation in Ohio's primary elections make it prohibitive for minority parties to be included on the ballot. The...
US District Court Judge Ewing Werlein has set either February 5 or September 4, 2007 as the trial date for three former British bankers , known as the Natwest Three, who face fraud charges related to the...
An amendment to the FY 2007 Department of Defense Appropriations bill which would prohibit the US military from using cluster bombs in proximity to civilians was defeated in the Senate by a vote of 70-30 [roll...
US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) said Wednesday that negotiations in Congress to implement comprehensive immigration reform will be streamlined to focus on border security and worksite enforcement. Both houses of Congress have...
An Indonesian court on Tuesday handed down the first sentence in connection to the 2005 Bali bombings of three restaurants, which killed two dozen people and injured 200 others. Abdul Aziz, convicted of harboring Noordin Mohammed Top...
The Iraqi National Assembly voted on Tuesday to renew the country's state of emergency, in place since November 2004 , for an additional 30 days. The emergency measures are applicable throughout the country, except for the...
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament approved a report Monday taking Turkey to task for slow progress on a variety of legal and other reforms agreed to by Ankara as part of its...
Egyptian-mediated negotiations to free an Israeli soldier held by Palestinian Hamas militants are ongoing, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told a Cairo newspaper Saturday. The capture of Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit by...
A report released Saturday by OpenTheGovernment.org , a private monitoring group, reveals what it described as further expansion of US government secrecy notwithstanding an increase in the number of classified government documents unsealed in 2005....
The ruling military junta in Myanmar will resume negotiations for a new constitution in the second week of October, junta spokesman Lt. Gen. Thein Sein announced Saturday. The constitutional convention was suspended on January...
