The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a suit alleging religious discrimination against General Motors (GM) . Writing for the court, Judge Ann Claire Williams...
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Chile's Santiago Court of Appeals voted 21-3 Friday to strip Augusto Pinochet of political immunity in respect of a fraud charge against the 90-year-old former dictator, who was fingerprinted and photographed by Chilean police...
Defying a gag order by the UK Foreign Office , former British ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig S. Murray has posted two documents to his weblog suggesting that despite government denials, the British government...
Kentucky lawmakers are bracing for renewed debate over public displays of the Ten Commendments after a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a display of the Ten Commandments [ruling text,...
The Adoption and Children Act , a new UK law effective Friday, has for the first time granted unmarried and same-sex couples in England and Wales the right to adopt children. The new legislation is designed to encourage adoption...
AP is reporting that the US Department of Justice has begun an investigation into the leak of classified information about President Bush's secret domestic surveillance program first disclosed in a New York Times article...
Senior officers in the British Army have been briefed on protecting the reputation of the armed services in the midst of close judicial scrutiny of soldiers' conduct in Iraq, according to a report in the Guardian newspaper...
The Canadian-based International Mission for Iraqi Elections established in 2004 to advise and consult on the Iraqi electoral process agreed Thursday to review the results of Iraq's December 15 parliamentary elections in...
Switzerland's Supreme Court Thursday overturned a lower court ruling and decided to extradite former Russian nuclear minister Yevgeny Adamov to Russia, rather than to the US, where he...
A federal judge has refused a request made six months ago by former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling to dismiss the ten insider trading charges filed against him. Skilling is alleged to have sold $26...
