UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's proposed anti-terrorism law is under more pressure for amendment after the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights Monday reported that currently-proposed provisions - such as the proposal...
France's highest administrative body ruled Monday that Sikhs are permitted to wear their turbans in drivers' licence photos, overturning a case involving a Sikh who refused to take off his turban for the photo. The ruling by the Council...
The US military on Monday issued a statement acknowledging the death of a detainee, later revealed to be former Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Hamza al-Zubaidi . The statement said Zubaidi, one of Saddam Hussein's top deputies after the...
US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton Monday criticized the expected dismissal of Carina Perelli , chief of the UN's Electoral Assistance Division in charge of organizing and promoting free elections, just 10 days before December...
Leading Friday's environmental law news, the Maine Board of Environmental Protection has approved regulations that set "California" emissions standards for new cars and trucks sold in Maine beginning in 2009. Maine becomes the sixth state...
Leading Thursday's environmental law news, James Hardie Industries signed an agreement Thursday with the government of New South Wales to pay $4.5 billion to compensate Australian asbestos victims. Hardie, a building products company,...
Australia's Labor Party leader Kim Beazley said Thursday that the controversial sedition provisions set to be included in Australia's new anti-terror laws lower the country "to the standard of North Korea, Syria and Cuba." On...
Iraq Interior Minister Bayan Jabr on Thursday fired Nouri al-Nouri, the country's senior inspector handling human rights issues, in connection with a torture scandal involving dozens of prisoners at a Baghdad prison, according to an Iraqi official....
Nigeria's Kaduna Code of Conduct Tribunal on Thursday began legal proceedings against Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, governor of the oil-rich state Bayelsa , on charges of corruption. The tribunal, an anti-corruption body that has the power to strip elected officials of...
Walgreens said Thursday it has suspended four Illinois pharmacists without pay for refusing to fill prescriptions for the morning-after pill in violation of a state rule. The pharmacists said their objections stemmed from religious or moral beliefs....
