Republicans in the US House of Representatives agreed Friday to vote on a compromise offshore drilling bill on Tuesday under special rules that limit amendments and generally speed up proceedings, but require a two-thirds...
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US House to vote on Gulf of Mexico offshore drilling bill
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Argentina judge declares former Iranian president ‘fugitive’
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Italy appeals court denies Berlusconi bid to remove judge in tax fraud trial
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Calderon inaugurated as new Mexico president after congressional fisticuffs
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Iraq government to police press after contested Sunni burnings story
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Supreme Court to hear First Amendment challenge
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Four Dutch defendants convicted for plotting terror attacks on politicians
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Los Angeles Archdiocese settles 45 clergy abuse suits for $60 million
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Hunger-striking war crimes defendant agrees to medical examination
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Pakistan president signs reformed rape law
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Argentinean judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral declared former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight other Iranian officials fugitives from justice on Friday. The nine failed to respond to arrest warrants issued...
An Italian appeals court Friday denied the request of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to remove the judge presiding over his tax fraud trial. Berlusconi and co-defendant David Mills had asked that...
Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon was formally sworn in as President of Mexico in a hasty ceremony before the Mexican Congress Friday after a midnight swearing in...
The Iraqi Interior Ministry has announced that it is forming a specialized unit to monitor news coverage. A ministry spokesman told AP the unit was designed to correct fabricated and false news that he claims gives...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in three cases Friday, most notably Morse v. Frederick (06-278) , which addresses whether a school board had the right to suspend a then-high school...
Four of six Dutch terror suspects on trial for planning attacks against Dutch politicians and government facilities were found guilty in Amsterdam Friday. The convicted include 20-year-old Samir Azzouz , who was sentenced to a prison...
The US Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles announced Friday that it has settled 45 lawsuits concerning 22 priests accused of clergy sexual abuse for $60 million. Ray...
Serb nationalist war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj , who has been on hunger strike for since Nov. 11, agreed Friday to medical examination by an "independent" team of doctors composed of a Serb,...
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf signed new legislation Friday allows rape cases to be tried in either secular or Islamic courts, reduces the evidentiary burden necessary for conviction, and substitutes a fine and five-year prison term...
