The US House of Representatives has passed the Lobbying Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 , a bill to regulate lobbying and ethics, by a narrow 217-213 margin . The bill imposes stricter...
As the UN Committee Against Torture prepares to hold its review of US compliance with international laws banning torture, a US State Department lawyer said Thursday that the US does not outsource torture and claimed that allegations...
The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that, under the Federal Trade Commission Act, would impose stiff civil penalties and authorize jail sentences for officials from energy companies that engage in price gouging when selling...
Two Egyptian judges faced disciplinary hearings at the Egyptian Supreme Court Thursday for their criticisms of parliamentary elections last year, which they and eight other judges claimed were marred by fraud. The two judges, Hesham el-Bastawisy and...
Jury deliberations in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui were put on hold Thursday after a juror called in sick, but are expected to resume Friday at 8:30 AM ET. US District Judge Leonie...
Australian prosecutors on Monday accused a Pakistani-born Australian immigrant of planning to bomb one of two targets in Sydney in one of the first cases to be tried under the country's new post 9/11 anti-terrorism laws . Faheem Khalid...
Relatives of Polish victims of the 1940 Katyn massacre are planning to file a complaint against Russia with the European Court of Human Rights to compel the government to disclose information about the killings perpetrated...
A group of prominent physicists has urged President Bush not to use tactical nuclear weapons against Iran in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , after recent articles in the Washington Post ...
The US Department of Homeland Security and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) announced a comprehensive plan to combat illegal immigration on Thursday which involves cracking down on companies that harbor...
The European Council counter-terrorism coordinator has reported that the existence of secret CIA prisons in Europe cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Addressing a European Parliament committee on Thursday, Gijs de Vries ...
