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Five former members of the Brigade of Gurkhas began arguments Tuesday in the High Court in London against an immigration policy that has precluded thousands of retired Nepalese members of the British Army from remaining...

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tuesday spoke in favor of a controversial anti-terror bill that would allow authorities to detain terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days in a speech ...

The number of UK employers prosecuted for hiring illegal immigrants has spiked since changes to British immigration laws were implemented in February, the BBC reported Monday. So far, 137 companies have been cited for employing illegal immigrants, 10 times...

A UK plan that would have required all citizens to obtain ID cards when applying for passports by 2010 has been dropped , the Home Office said Thursday. Under current...

The UK Identity and Passport Service will delay issuing ID cards to British nationals until 2010, according to documents leaked from the UK Home Office . Plans are still underway...

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke was dropped from Prime Minister Tony Blair's cabinet in a major cabinet shuffle Friday and was replaced by John Reid , who formerly served as...

Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Wednesday that Australia will not implement a compulsory national identity card when he rolled out plans for a voluntary and comprehensive health and welfare card that will replace the...

The UK Terrorism Act 2006 became law Thursday as the legislation received royal assent. A vote in the UK House of Lords last week cleared the way for the bill to move...

The UK House of Lords and House of Commons ended a political standoff Wednesday by adopting a compromise on the controversial Identity Cards Bill . The legislation had bounced back and forth between...

A classic legislative tug-of-war between the UK House of Lords and House of Commons continued Monday as peers once again sent the controversial Identity Cards Bill back to MPs after a majority...