Citizens of the north African state of Mauritania voted Sunday on a constitutional amendment that would limit the number of terms that a president can serve. The vote follows a successful coup attempt...
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Mauritania votes in constitutional referendum on presidential term limits
US soldiers charged in another shooting of unarmed Iraqi civilian
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Bush urges Congress to pass line-item veto bill in weekend radio address
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Hussein believes US will use death penalty to force him to stop insurgency: NYT
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Bush order limits private property seizures by federal government
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Philippines president signs law abolishing death penalty
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Bill would drop military aid ban against countries not signing ICC immunity deals
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US Navy begins criminal investigation after sailors’ data found on civilian website
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ABA fined $185,000 for violating law schools antitrust order
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Kelo eminent domain plaintiffs reach deal with New London
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The US military announced Sunday that two US Pennsylvania National Guardsmen have been charged in connection with the February 15 shooting of an Iraqi civilian near a US military base at Ramadi west of Baghdad. Specialist...
President Bush Saturday urged Congress to approve a line-item veto bill in his weekly radio address Saturday, insisting that "a line-item veto would allow the President to remove wasteful spending from a bill while preserving the...
Saddam Hussein knows that a death sentence awaits him at the end of his trial {JURIST news archive] before the Iraqi High Tribunal for alleged crimes against humanity, but his lawyer says Hussein believes the US...
President Bush issued an executive order Friday directing that US federal agencies and government departments may not seize private property unless the taking is for public use "and not merely for the purpose of advancing the...
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines Saturday signed into law a bill abolishing the death penalty. The law repeals the country's 12-year old death penalty and converts all...
A provision in the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act on its way to the US House of Representatives after being passed 96-0 Thursday by the Senate would restore military aid to countries that refuse to sign bilateral immunity...
The US Navy announced Friday that it has begun a criminal investigation into how information containing Social Security numbers and other personal data for 28,000 sailors was found on a civilian Web site. Although the information...
The American Bar Assocation (ABA) and the US Justice Department agreed on Friday that the ABA would pay the goverment $185,000 in fees and costs for violating six provisions of a 1996 court order that...
Governor M. Jodi Rell of Connecticut said Friday that a tentative agreement has been made between the city of New London and two homeowners who refused to leave their homes for a private development on their land...
