Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, the Sprint-Nextel merger has taken a large step towards final approval after the Federal Communications Commission and the US Justice Department ...
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London-based human rights group Liberty has urged English Attorney General Lord Goldsmith to warn British newspapers and media reporting on the London bombings not to prejudice upcoming trials of the bombers by creating an assumption...
Saudi Arabia's new ruler King Abdullah has vowed to "work for justice and serve all citizens without discrimination," in his first address to the nation as its official leader. Saudi King Fahd died early Monday...
Eight members of the UN Commission on Human Rights Thursday called on Israel to stop building a barrier to close off the West Bank. The group, marking the first anniversary this summer of an International...
The Colorado chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday that recently-released FBI files support the contention that the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force is monitoring peaceful protesters as if they were terrorists ....
Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock has again denied that David Hicks , an Australian national facing a US military tribunal on charges he fought for the Taliban, could be tried in Australian courts for the...
After reaching an agreement with G4 nations to stick to a single plan for UN Security Council expansion, the African Union opened a conference on Thursday with 46 of the 53 member countries in attendance,...
India's Supreme Court on Thursday let stand the death sentence of Mohammad Afzal for his role in a 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament that left nine people dead. The court commuted the death sentence...
The London-based Assembly for the Protection of the Hijab , a Muslim women's group, voiced opposition Thursday to a suggestion from the UK Council of Mosques and Imams that women should cease wearing headscarves because of their potential...
Political leaders in Iraq prepared Thursday for a national conference set for Friday designed to break the deadlock surrounding key issues of the Iraq constitution , a draft of which is due August 15. Iraqi...
