President Bush Friday signed what he described as a "minimal" ethics reform bill designed to force lawmakers to disclose pet projects and divulge more details about campaign contributions. The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007...
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Bush signs ‘minimal’ legislative ethics bill but urges more reforms
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Rights groups accuse Egypt of limiting press freedoms after court jails editors
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ICTY chief prosecutor mandate extended to year-end
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State Department religious freedom report criticizes Iraq, other US allies
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Iran leader says ‘war criminal’ Bush should be tried before international court
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Iraq still facing legal challenges: White House report
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China to release jailed NYT researcher sentenced for fraud
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Iraqis sue Australian exporter alleged to have paid oil-for-food kickbacks to Saddam
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Kurdish government demands Iraq oil minister resign over contracts comments
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Fair use of copyrighted material benefits US economy: report
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Amnesty International and Reporters without Borders Friday accused Egypt of clamping down on freedom of the press after a court sentenced the editors of four tabloids for publishing criticisms of President Hosni Mubarak and the...
The United Nations Security Council has extended the mandate for International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte until December 31, the war crimes tribunal announced Friday. Del Ponte,...
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice released the annual State Department Report on International Religious Freedom Friday, criticizing what it considered to be sharp decreases in religious freedom and an increase in religious strife in several nations, including...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday that US President George W. Bush was a "war criminal" comparable to Adolf Hitler or Saddam Hussein and that he would eventually be brought before an international tribunal to...
The White House submitted a new Benchmark Assessment Report on Iraq to Congress Friday, noting that little progress had been made by the Iraqi government toward accomplishing 18 "benchmarks" thought to be essential to Iraq's stability. The...
Zhao Yan , a New York Times researcher who was sentenced to three years in prison for fraud in August 2006, is to be released on Saturday, according to Chinese prison officials. A Chinese court...
Victims of Saddam Hussein's government filed a class action lawsuit against the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) and its US subsidiary in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ,...
Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Thursday called for the resignation of Iraq Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani in response to Shahristani's remarks that oil contracts signed by the KRG with several global companies are illegal. At a Tuesday...
The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) released a report Wednesday saying that fair use exceptions to US copyright laws create more than $4.5 trillion in revenue in the...
