Italy has arrested 141 people in an ongoing security sweep , begun expulsion procedures against 701 people, and questioned almost 33,000 people since last month's terrorist attacks in London and Egypt, Italy's Ministry of the Interior announced Monday. According to the Ministry's press release , the country has received several internet threats allegedly from Islamic [...]
Iraqi leaders confirmed Tuesday that key unresolved issues in drafting the Iraqi constitution lead to Monday's one-week deadline extension . According to Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a Shiite, the primary issues of contention are distribution of oil wealth and federalism; Shiite lawmakers are also saying that the unresolved issues include women's rights, the role of [...]
In a 1985 memo to White House counsel Fred Fielding released Monday, US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts stated that the Court's ruling in Wallace v. Jaffree , striking down an Alabama law mandating a one-minute period of silence for prayer or meditation as unconstitutional, "seems indefensible" and urged the White House to support a [...]
The Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York has failed to turn over videotapes showing interviews of aliens held on immigration charges during the investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, US Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn Fine said Monday. The facility was required to turn over the tapes as part of a 2003 [...]
After signing amended provisions of the Palestinian Basic Law relating to elections over the weekend, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced Monday that parliamentary elections delayed in July because of problems with the electoral law are now set for January 21, 2006. Palestinian Islamic resistance group Hamas had objected to the delay, and Abbas has expressed [...]
US Department of Justice attorneys asked a US District Court Monday to replace the judge presiding over an Indian trust class-action lawsuit filed in 1996. Class representatives in Corbell v. Norton are suing to force the federal government to account for billions of dollars belonging to approximately 500,000 American Indians and their heirs, and held [...]
In an interview with the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper to be published Tuesday, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel , whose country is scheduled to take over the six-month rotating EU presidency from the UK at the beginning of 2006, has suggested that EU countries make another attempt to ratify the troubled European Constitution in two [...]
Leading Monday's corporations and securities law brief, the New York Stock Exchange says it has censured and fined Merrill Lynch for what it called "supervisory and operational lapses." In a press release, the NYSE indicated it has fined the brokerage giant $10 million for, among other things, failure to deliver prospectuses and product descriptions to [...]
Leading Monday's states brief, the Rhode Island Supreme Court heard oral arguments today on whether a casino proposed by the Narragansett Indian tribe and the Las Vegas-based Harrah's Entertainment would be a constitutional expansion of gambling. Last year, the Supreme Court declared the proposal unconstitutional because it violated the requirement that all lotteries be state [...]
The Iraqi National Assembly has voted unanimously to allow a seven-day extension to allow Iraq's constitutional committee time to finish drafting the Iraqi constitution . From Baghdad, the Iraq the Model weblog carries updates on the parliamentary session as broadcast on Al-Iraqia TV. The extension is said to have been accomplished by legislative approval of [...]
