Jack Martin : "The White House and Congress understand that the American public is concerned about the fast-growing concentration of illegal residents in our communities, schools and worksites. But there are two very distinct approaches to dealing with the issue. One is to get tough on border and interior enforcement to deter further illegal immigration [...]
An Egyptian court Wednesday sentenced a television reporter with Al Jazeera to six months in prison for producing a film that depicts police torture. Howayda Taha was tried in absentia for her role in creating a film that Egyptian authorities say includes phony shots of Egyptian police torturing suspects. Al Jazeera responded that the footage [...]
China has officially banned the sale of human organs effective Wednesday following an April 6 decision by the State Council , according to reports by Chinese state media. Any doctors caught trafficking in organs will have their licenses revoked, any hospitals caught will be suspended from performing organ transplants for at least three years, and [...]
The Canadian Senate Wednesday passed a US-style bill to have federal elections on fixed dates every four years . An Act to Amend the Canada Elections Act requires that an election be held on the third Monday of October four years after the last federal election, although the chief electoral officer has limited discretion to [...]
Several Pakistani protesters and an opposition lawmaker were injured and dozens of people were arrested Wednesday after members of a religious party tried to break through a police line to bring water to hundreds of lawyers and opposition activists gathered in front of the Supreme Court building in Islamabad to show their support for suspended [...]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday said he would push for constitutional amendments to change Turkey's system for electing its president. Under the proposed amendments, the president would be elected by a direct vote rather than chosen by parliament. The announcement is an attempt to calm political tensions after the Turkish Constitutional Court voided [...]
Two French judges accompanied by police officers on Wednesday attempted to search France's presidential palace as part of an investigation into the 1995 death of French judge Bernard Borrel in Djibouti. The search was targeted at the African affairs department, however, the judges were not granted access to the building. A presidential spokesperson said that [...]
Human rights activist Umida Niyazova was sentenced to seven years in prison after an Uzbek court convicted her Tuesday of illegal border crossing, smuggling, and distributing Islamic extremist propaganda. Niyazova worked for Human Rights Watch and was arrested earlier this year after returning to Uzbekistan from Kyrgyzstan on charges of crossing the border illegally and [...]
The Iraqi Parliament on Wednesday received a draft oil law that would regulate how profits from the country's oil wells will be shared by the different ethnic groups in the country. President Bush has said he believes that the agreement will help to end violence in Iraq, and has urged Shi'ite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki [...]
The US Supreme Court refused Tuesday to prevent the US military from transferring Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Abdul Rauf Zalita to his home country of Libya, rejecting Zalita's arguments that he faced a "grave risk of arbitrary detention, torture, persecution and extrajudicial assassination" after being returned to Libya. In a one-sentence order , the Court [...]
