Ohio Governor Bob Taft Thursday vetoed as too restrictive a ban on using funds from a high-tech job initiative to pay for embryonic stem cell research. Taft said that the ban...
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US President George W. Bush unveiled a $55 million initiative "to support women's justice and empowerment in Africa" at the White House Thursday. The stated goals of the plan , part of a larger $400 million...
UK-based human rights groups Statewatch , Campaign Against Criminalising Communities , and the Human Rights and Social Justice Institute at the London Metropolitan University have collectively denounced the practice of "proscribing” - or labelling...
US officials said Thurday that the US would investigate allegations that Iranian president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was among the revolutionary students responsible for taking American embassy staff in Tehran hostage in 1979 and holding them for 444 days...
Cyprus on Thursday ratified the European Constitution after a special two-day session of the country's parliament . Lawmakers approved the charter 30-19 in an attempt to counteract the devastating rejections handed down by...
The European Union on Thursday banned the trade of instruments "that have no use other than for capital punishment or torture" according to a European Commission statement. Banned goods include belts that shock with electricity, electric chairs and guillotines....
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,...
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso Thursday called for a "period of reflection" on the proposed European constitution , now largely in political limbo, in order to "reconnect with our citizens and stimulate a genuine,...
Reporting on their weekend visit to Guantanamo , lawmakers told the US House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday that conditions at the facility were better than expected. Committee Chair Duncan Hunter (R-CA) said...
Despite the Australian government's recently-announced changes to the system , Amnesty International said Thursday in a new report that Australia's asylum policy is still "tragically flawed" . AI says the controversial...
