A French appeals court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of French state railway company SNCF for the deportation of two Jewish men during World War II. An administrative court in Toulouse convicted ...
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FBI Director Robert Mueller asserted Tuesday that the agency is able to properly use the surveillance powers granted it under the Patriot Act , telling senators at a US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing...
An Illinois jury sided with Merck & Co. Tuesday in the latest Vioxx litigation, holding that the painkiller was not the cause of the 2003 death of 52-year-old Patty Schwaller. Schwaller's husband...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani announced plans Tuesday to present new legislation to the Iraqi National Assembly in upcoming weeks that would allow most...
Rights violations being committed in Central Asia are comparable to abuses perpetrated in the former Soviet Union, according the annual report released Tuesday by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF). The IHF was particularly...
Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine (D) has proposed amending a bill requiring girls to be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV) , a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, to allow parents to opt...
The Egyptian government said Tuesday that voters overwhelmingly approved 34 amendments to the country's constitution despite low voter turnout in the referendum overall. Egyptian Justice Minister Mamdouh Marei said that almost 76 percent of...
A senior aide of US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has said that she will assert her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than testify regarding the events surrounding the firing of eight US Attorneys...
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks may be sentenced this week after pleading guilty Monday to a charge of supporting terrorism and could return home to serve his sentence by the end...
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks pleaded guilty to a charge of supporting terrorism at an appearance before a US military commission Monday after the presiding judge unexpectedly disqualified two of his three lawyers....
