UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned Thursday that Kosovo has not moved quickly enough to implement international standards of human rights, democraticization, ethnic tolerance and law enforcement. The Serbian province, under UN administration...
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has complained to Washington that the United States violated its sovereignty in a recent air strike on a village near the Afghanistan border. The failed January 13 attack ...
France's highest judicial authority will rule on a controversial measure requiring French history teachers to stress the positive aspects of French colonialism. President Jacques Chirac announced Thursday that he would refer the law , passed...
CNN is reporting that Democratic Senator John Kerry, joined by Edward Kennedy and perhaps other Democrats will attempt a filibuster to block the US Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel Alito . Kerry, currently in Switzerland attending...
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Thursday that ChoicePoint will be required to pay $10 million in civil penalties and $5 million to customers affected by last year's identity theft incident...
A federal judge Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit brought in 2004 by two US Army National Guard soldiers that claimed the Army fraudulently induced them to enlist by failing to inform them that they could be...
US Senate Democrats Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Ken Salazar (D-CO) Thursday urged US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to appoint a special counsel to lead the investigation of Jack Abramoff and...
West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin signed a mine safety bill Thursday S. 247 requiring mines to provide wireless emergency communicators, tracking devices and extra air supplies to their miners. The West Virginia Legislature [official...
Khalil Dulaimi, chief defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein said Thursday following up on earlier defense statements that the ousted Iraqi leader intends "very soon" to sue US President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense...
An effort to increase the detention period for terror suspects in the UK from 28 days to 60 days was defeated Wednesday in the House of Lords by a vote of 210-108. Under current law [Criminal Justice...
