Australian Prime Minister John Howard spoke out Sunday in support of the Pentagon's decision to recharge 31-year-old David Hicks , the single Australian terror suspect at Guantanamo Bay , notwithstanding US inclusion of...
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Bangladeshi security forces picked up 13 ex-ministers and senior politicians from their homes in raids in Dhaka Sunday. The government cited recently-promulgated emergency powers as the basis for the detentions. Bangladesh country has been in political...
Former US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor made her decision to step down in July 2005 after consulting with then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist , according to a Newsweek interview [text; press...
House Page Board Revision Act of 2007, White House, February 3, 2006 [bill signed by US President George W. Bush to help monitor US congressional pages by expanding the supervisory House Page Board to include a former page and a...
The head of the UN Mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) expressed concern Saturday about increased human rights violations by security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo , particularly those in...
US President George W. Bush signed a bill Friday to help monitor US congressional pages by expanding the supervisory House Page Board to include a former page and a current or former page's parent....
The governor of Texas signed an executive order Friday making that state the first to require that girls be vaccinated for human papilloma virus (HPV) , which is the primary cause of cervical...
The UN Working Group of Experts on People of Africa Descent Friday called for a global ban on racial profiling at the conclusion of its annual 5-day session . The group urged "states...
Lt. Col. Colby Vokey, the US Marine defense coordinator for the western US, told the Associated Press Friday that his paralegal, Sgt. Heather Cerveny, has been accused of having made a false statement by Army Col. Richard Basset. Bassett...
The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland ruled Friday that people with serious mental illnesses may be permitted to commit physician-assisted suicide under certain conditions. The decision recognized "that an incurable, permanent, serious mental disorder can...
