Despite earlier doubts that the Iraqi constitution will be completed and ratified on schedule in a referendum, Farid Ayar, a member of Iraq's Independent Electoral Commission , said Tuesday he is "optimistic" that the...
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BBC television is reporting that UK police have made a "series of arrests" in the London bombings case after they identified the body of a bomber who died in the Tavistock Square bus blast. It is not clear whether...
Echoing earlier statements by UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke after last week's London bombings, British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the House of Commons Monday that he intended to stick by the current timetable for new counter-terrorism...
In his first in-person consultation with Senator leaders on his upcoming nomination of a replacement for retiring US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor , President Bush met Tuesday with Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA), ranking Judiciary...
After last week's bombings in London, UK foreign minister Jack Straw has joined with European Union justice commissioner Franco Frattini in calling for new EU rules to allow government access to telecommunications data ....
The European Court of Justice Tuesday ruled in favor of the controversial EU Food Supplements Directive , scheduled to come into effect August 1. The directive, approved by EU governments in 2002, uses a...
Issam Ghazzawi, a lawyer with Saddam Hussein's defense team, currently in some disarray after the resignation of its Jordanian leader last week, said in an interview in Tuesday's edition of the Vienna newspaper Die...
US House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-WI) introduced a House bill Monday to make existing provisions of the Patriot Act permanent, but stopped short of adding new...
The European Court of Justice Tuesday fined the French government 20 million euros ($24 million) for its failure to comply with EU fishing laws, and then, for the first time in the court's history [press...
After a US Supreme Court ruling in March, the US Tax Court has announced important changes to its procedure, ending the 20-year practice of keeping secret reports prepared by judges at hearings. At issue in...
