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Israeli security officials said Wednesday that Israel would suspend its targeted killings of Palestinian militants as part of its preparations for a cease-fire and a resumption of peace talks with the Palestinian Authority. Israel will not...

In Wednesday's international brief, London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens says that no prosecutions will proceed against the four Britons released from Guantanamo Bay based on material gathered by UK MI5 investigators who made...

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke announced Wednesday that foreign terror suspects currently being detained in British prisons will be set free and will either be deported or will be subject to "control orders." At one end of...

Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, SEC Chairman William Donaldson stated in a speech today that the agency is considering changes to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to ease burden on foreign companies. Companies in both...

Iraqi prisoners are routinely subject to torture by Iraqi authorities, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Tuesday. Iraqi prisoners told HRW investigators that they had been tortured or mistreated by kicking, slapping and punching; prolonged...

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, ImClone Systems Inc. has agreed to settle a class-action shareholder lawsuit from 2002 for $75 million. The lawsuit accused the company of making false and misleading statements about a prospective...

Britain's Law Society , which represents lawyers in England and Wales, has called for the nine foreign terror suspects who have been detained in the UK since December 2001 to be tried or released....

US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has canceled plans to fly to Germany in February to attend the Munich Conference on Security Policy , giving rise to speculation that the cancellation is connected with a war...

Leading Friday's international brief, a key member of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement , now the ruling party in Southern Sudan, has expressed concern about the makeup of the proposed UN peacekeeping force to be deployed in March....

Leading Friday's corporations and securities law news, Fidelity Investments announced two more traders have left the firm over the government's investigation into employees who inappropriately solicited and received expensive gifts and entertainment from brokers who wanted the...