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The European Parliament Tuesday Tuesday a joint proposal by several EU governments to retain phone and e-mail data for up to three years for use in anti-terror investigations. The parliament said the proposal from Britain,...

The UN on Friday evacuated 11 Uzbek refugees to London after they fled to Kyrgyzstan following deadly riots that erupted in Andijan last spring. The 11 refugees were accused of terrorism by the Uzbekistan...

With new anti-terrorism measures being introduced across Europe in the wake of the London bombings, Sweden's Justice Minister Thomas Bodstrom has said he plans to introduce a bill that would strengthen the military's role in...

A French court Wednesday found 13 individuals and companies in the Mont Blanc tunnel disaster trial guilty of manslaughter, with former French head of tunnel security Gerard Roncoli receiving a six month prison sentence. Gilbert...

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, facing charges of crimes against humanity, was denied permission late last week to stand trial or serve his sentence in Sweden. Swedish Justice Ministry director Ann Marie Bolin Pennegaard told AFP that the request...

Giovanni di Stefano , a lawyer for Saddam Hussein, said once again Monday that the insurgency in Iraq has created an unsafe environment for the trial of the former dictator and that the venue should be...

Despite earlier indications that it would be approved , observers now aren't sure which way Luxembourg will vote on the EU Constitution in this Sunday's national referendum . Other countries have...

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,...

Abdel Hussein Shandal, Iraq's Sunni justice minister, accused the US on Tuesday of trying to delay Iraqi efforts to interrogate Saddam Hussein. While he said he expects Saddam's trial for war crimes to be over by...

Luxembourg leaders say they will stick to their original plan for a July 10 referendum on the embattled European Union constitution . Following popular rejection of the charter in France and the Netherlands, seven other European countries...