The US House of Representatives passed a measure Thursday which would cut federal funding for development projects that involve seizure of private property. The legislation approved 231-189 was proposed in response to last week's US Supreme Court ruling on...

Leading Thursday's states brief, the Washington Supreme Court ruled today that the Seattle Times could count monetary losses it incurred during a 2000 strike in its effort to end its joint operating agreement with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer...

Ismail Hussain, a defendant in the forgery trial of Egyptian presidential candidate Ayman Nour , on Thursday changed his plea to not guilty, saying he earlier made a false confession, acknowledging forging signatures under pressure from...

Ohio Governor Bob Taft Thursday vetoed as too restrictive a ban on using funds from a high-tech job initiative to pay for embryonic stem cell research. Taft said that the ban...

US President George W. Bush unveiled a $55 million initiative "to support women's justice and empowerment in Africa" at the White House Thursday. The stated goals of the plan , part of a larger $400 million...

UK-based human rights groups Statewatch , Campaign Against Criminalising Communities , and the Human Rights and Social Justice Institute at the London Metropolitan University have collectively denounced the practice of "proscribing” - or labelling...

US officials said Thurday that the US would investigate allegations that Iranian president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was among the revolutionary students responsible for taking American embassy staff in Tehran hostage in 1979 and holding them for 444 days...

Cyprus on Thursday ratified the European Constitution after a special two-day session of the country's parliament . Lawmakers approved the charter 30-19 in an attempt to counteract the devastating rejections handed down by...

The European Union on Thursday banned the trade of instruments "that have no use other than for capital punishment or torture" according to a European Commission statement. Banned goods include belts that shock with electricity, electric chairs and guillotines....

The Dutch government said Thursday that police in more than a dozen countries have confiscated computers and made arrests in an illegal file-swapping sweep led by US authorities. The raids occurred Wednesday in the Netherlands, Australia, Israel, Germany, South-Korea,...