Leading Friday's corporations and securities news, airline regulators have approved America West's merger with bankrupt US Airways. In a joint press release, the airlines announced that the Air Transportation Stabilization Board (ATSB) approved of the merger unanimously....

A UN legal expert has recommended urgent action be taken to restore the rule of law in Ecuador following last December's Congressional ouster of 27 of 31 Supreme Court judges . The Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission...

Italy and France announced new security measures Friday designed to combat terrorism following the recent London bombings . Although neither nation has been the target of Islamic terrorists, both have tightened security on transit systems and are investigating...

The Japanese parliament passed a measure Friday giving Japanese Minister of State for Defense Yoshinori Ohno the legal power to shoot down incoming missiles without consulting the prime minister or cabinet. The bill, which passed in the...

Western intelligence security services believe that Ratko Mladic , who has been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for war crimes, is still being protected by covert members of...

California Superior Court Judge Gail Ohanesian removed Proposition 77 , a redistricting plan by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger , from the November 7 state ballot Thursday, holding that supporters violated California's constitution by using two significantly different versions...

AP is reporting that London police arrested a man Friday in the south London neighborhood of Stockwell, near where a suspect was shot earlier today , in connection with Thursday's bombing attacks . In related news, two...

Leading Friday's international brief, the main political opposition party in South Africa, the Democratic Alliance , has called on South African President Thabo Mbeki to reject a request by Zimbabwean officials for financial aid to support the...

Senior magistrates in Spain's Audiencia Nacional, the country's primary terrorist court, say that they are contemplating refusing to extradite Spanish nationals to Germany after German officials refused to extradite and later released Mamoun Darkazanli , a...

The US Department of State urged senators Thursday not to pass the UN Reform Act of 2005 , legislation introduced by Senators Norm Coleman (D-MN) and Dick Lugar (R-IN) , that cuts the dues the...