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Gitmo tapes "as explosive as anything from Abu Ghraib"

March 21, 2005 10:52:00 AM

A former lawyer for Australian terror suspect David Hicks told a major law conference in Australia Monday that US military videotapes from the terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would be "as explosive as anything...

March 11, 2005 05:08:00 PM

Santa Clara Superior Court Judge James P. Kleinberg ruled Friday that Apple Computer could subpoena the e-mail records of the PowerPage Macintosh enthusiast website. Apple has been engaged in legal actions against PowerPage and other...

March 9, 2005 03:46:00 PM

Iran's Supreme Court has lifted a ban that has kept reformist newspaper Neshat from publishing since 1999. The newspaper was shut down after it criticized the country's penal system, which is based on Islamic...

March 8, 2005 02:20:00 PM

While acknowledging that the March 4 incident was "accidental", Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini Tuesday disputed Washington's version of the events that led to the shooting death of an Italian intelligence officer and the wounding of a freed Iralian...

March 6, 2005 10:00:00 AM

Italian prosecutors have questioned Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, who was wounded late Friday by US forces after she was released by her kidnappers at the end of a month-long hostage ordeal. An Italian security agent was killed...

March 4, 2005 03:32:00 PM

journalist Giuliana Sgrena to safety after she had been released from her Iraqi captors. The attack wounded Sgrena and killed an Italian secret...

March 4, 2005 03:19:00 PM

The Swiss Federal Prosecutor's office announced Friday that searches conducted in Switzerland on February 22 resulted in the arrests of three individuals accused of running Islamic websites that allowed Internet users to view images of...

March 4, 2005 11:00:00 AM

Judge James Kleinberg of the Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County issued a preliminary ruling Thursday holding that three computer industry blogs - PowerPage, Apple Insider, and Think Secret - could not claim the same First...

February 25, 2005 12:05:00 PM

In Friday's international brief, the African Union announced the suspension of Togo's membership in the continental organization following a meeting of the AU Peace and Security Council . The AU also called for wider sanctions against...

February 24, 2005 01:07:00 PM

New York District Court Judge Robert W. Sweet ruled Thursday that the New York Times can protect the confidentiality of its sources under the First Amendment , refusing to dismiss the paper's lawsuit against the...

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