Former immigration official Michael Maxwell testified about alleged widespread corruption and security vulnerabilities within the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) before the US House Committee on International Relations on Thursday. Maxwell, who resigned in February as...
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French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said Thursday he was open to all proposals for resolving the month-long standoff with students and labor unions over the law establishing the First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche,...
US House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) accused US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales of "stonewalling" his committee on the topic of the NSA warrantless surveillance program during an...
The State Department announced Thursday afternoon in Washington that the United States will not be seeking membership this year of the new UN Human Rights Council . A spokesman said in a press statement ahead...
US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) , Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and eleven other senators announced Thursday that party leaders have hammered out a compromise immigration reform bill that...
European Union diplomats on Thursday evening are expected to approve a travel ban on 31 high-level Belarus governmental officials, including the president, in reaction to the controversial March 19th presidential election and the subsequent crackdown...
The vice president of Russian oil giant Yukos , Vasily Aleksanyan, has been charged by Russian prosecutors with embezzling company funds and laundering money. Aleksanyan, who only took over as Yukos VP on Tuesday, headed up Yukos legal...
Former vice-presidential Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby told the federal grand jury investigating the CIA leak case that President Bush authorized his disclosure of intelligence information on Iraq, according to the government's...
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has selected British lawyer Karim Asad Ahmad Khan to serve as his provisional counsel in proceedings at the Special Court for Sierra Leone . Special Court Principal Defender...
Government summary of grand jury testimony by I. "Scooter" Libby, former Chief of Staff to US Vice President Dick Cheney on President Bush's 2003 authorization for Libby to disclose certain US intelligence information on Iraq's weapons program from a classified...
