The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railroad v. White , a case in which it will decide which of the...
Reformist Egyptian judges Mahmud Mekki and Hisham Al Bastawissi face disciplinary hearings before Justice Minister Mahmud Abuleil, a judicial source reported Monday. The judges may possibly be terminated for leaking information to the press during last year's parliamentary elections...
British police on Thursday arrested Des Smith, the first person held in police custody in the "cash for honors" probe , before releasing him on bail later in the day. The arrest stemmed from allegations that the...
The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected the argument that Governor Bob Taft (R) has full executive privilege to keep records private in a 5-2 decision . Rather, the court held on Thursday that...
Protests continued at 32 of France's 84 universities Monday, despite separate announcements from French President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin earlier in the day that the section of a recently-enacted law on...
President Bush defended his decision to declassify intelligence regarding the Iraq war Monday, responding to allegations of wrongdoing revealed during the CIA leak case . Addressing students and foreign policy analysts at Johns Hopkins University, the president...
A panel of 11 members of the German parliament began its investigation into the role of German intelligence in the war in Iraq Friday. The committee will focus on 30 questions posed by the Free Democratic Party,...
The United Nations has expressed disappointment in the US decision not to run for a position on the new UN Human Rights Council . Spokesmen for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan...
The US Department of Defense Monday released 2,600 pages of case review documents pertaining to Guantanamo Bay prisoners, finally making public the names of all 490 prisoners currently held at the facility after disclosing...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has held that the US adhered to international trade rules in setting softwood lumber tariffs against Canada . A WTO panel publicly released a report ...
