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News Feingold resolution to censure Bush shuttled off to committee
Feingold resolution to censure Bush shuttled off to committee
Tatyana Margolin
March 14, 2006 06:33:00 am

A resolution introduced Monday in the US Senate by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) to censure President Bush over domestic spying received only lukewarm approval from Feingold's fellow Democrats, preventing a floor vote...

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News Belarus jails 15 opposition activists days before presidential election
Belarus jails 15 opposition activists days before presidential election
Tatyana Margolin
March 14, 2006 05:55:00 am

Belarus authorities in Minsk Monday sentenced fifteen opposition activists to short jail terms as part of the government's latest effort to suppress opposition before Sunday's presidential elections. According to human rights monitors, the activists were not...

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News UK ID card legislation goes back to Lords after latest Commons endorsement
UK ID card legislation goes back to Lords after latest Commons endorsement
Tatyana Margolin
March 14, 2006 05:19:00 am

The controversial UK Identity Cards Bill will go back to the House of Lords on Wednesday after Prime Minister Tony Blair's governing Labour Party won a critical...

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News British SAS soldier cites illegality of US Iraq tactics as reason for resigning
British SAS soldier cites illegality of US Iraq tactics as reason for resigning
Tatyana Margolin
March 13, 2006 07:18:00 am

A member of the elite Special Air Service special forces of the British Army who refused to return to Iraq and later left British military service said in an interview published in the UK...

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News Berlusconi assails Italian judiciary in bid for electoral win
Berlusconi assails Italian judiciary in bid for electoral win
Tatyana Margolin
March 13, 2006 06:02:00 am

Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi called Italy's judiciary “the disease of our democracy” in a weekend TV interview, promising changes to the judicial system as he himself faces the possibility of a new trial before...

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News UK government to propose admitting wiretap evidence at trials
UK government to propose admitting wiretap evidence at trials
Tatyana Margolin
March 7, 2006 07:26:00 am

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke is expected to propose legislation that would allow the use of wiretap evidence in British courtrooms, specifically in cases of organized crime and terrorism, according to British press reports Tuesday. The...

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News Germany considers largest constitutional reform in 50 years
Germany considers largest constitutional reform in 50 years
Tatyana Margolin
March 7, 2006 06:49:00 am

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Monday that her cabinet had approved a new bill to jump-start the biggest constitutional reform in Germany since 1949. The bill is meant...

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News UK presses US to ratify extradition treaty
UK presses US to ratify extradition treaty
Tatyana Margolin
March 7, 2006 05:18:00 am

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke protested the failure of the United States to ratify the latest US-UK extradition treaty , ratified by the UK parliament in 2003, at a meeting Monday...

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News Judge considers Gitmo force-feeding in first test of Detainee Treatment Act
Judge considers Gitmo force-feeding in first test of Detainee Treatment Act
Tatyana Margolin
March 3, 2006 08:04:00 am

At a hearing in Washington Thursday US District Judge Gladys Kessler questioned the treatment of Mohammed Bawazir, a former hunger striker at Guantanamo Bay eventually force-fed in treatment his lawyers say was torture contrary...

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News Italy justice minister denounces prosecutor ‘pressure’  on CIA extraditions
Italy justice minister denounces prosecutor ‘pressure’ on CIA extraditions
Tatyana Margolin
March 3, 2006 04:31:00 am

Italian Justice Minister Roberto Castelli has accused Milan prosecutors of unlawfully pressuring him to request the extradition from the US of 22 CIA agents allegedly responsible for the 2003 kidnapping and extraordinary rendition [JURIST...

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