Lawyers for Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr were blocked from attending a scheduled Tuesday meeting with Khadr at Guantanamo Bay . Officials have launched an investigation into the ethics of the defense team, and Navy Lt. Cmdr. Bill Kuebler , a military lawyer for Khadr, e-mailed media outlets to state that the investigation was prompted [...]

Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs Miguel Angel Moratinos on Tuesday indicated his country's willingness to accept Guantanamo detainees during his meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington DC. No specific details were set out during the meeting, and Moratinos told Spanish media that the legal implications of each detainee's case will have [...]

Internet search company Google, Inc. will apply to join a European Commission (EC) antitrust proceeding against Microsoft , accusing the software giant of hindering competition, according to a message from Google Vice President Sundar Pichai posted to the company's official blog Tuesday. On January 17, the EC confirmed that it sent a Statement of Objections [...]

Colombian president Alvaro Uribe on Monday denied ordering Department of Administrative Security (DAS) agents to conduct wiretaps on politicians, judges and journalists. Journalists from the Colombian magazine Semana were the first to publish the allegations, and have stated that certain recordings have already been destroyed. Some fear that remaining tapes may get into the hands [...]

British Justice Secretary Jack Straw on Tuesday vetoed a British Information Tribunal order for the release of redacted minutes of two Cabinet discussions from the months prior to the invasion of Iraq . Straw declared that the public interest in keeping Cabinet meetings secret outweighed the benefits of disclosure: Serious and controversial decisions must be [...]

Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday urged the Guatemalan Congress to approve a law establishing a National Search Commission for the Persons Forcibly and Involuntarily Disappeared. The proposed legislation was presented to the Guatemalan Congress in January 2007, and was an important part of a 1999 report by the Commission for Historical Clarification. Prompted by the [...]

A Paris appeals court on Tuesday overturned the 2007 terrorism convictions of five French citizens who had been questioned by French officials while detained at Guantanamo Bay . The court held that counter-terrorism agents from the French national security service DST could not gather intelligence and conduct a criminal investigation at the same time. The [...]

US President Barack Obama urged sweeping reform of the American financial regulatory system in a speech on his economic revitalization plan to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. His address, which came less than a week after he signed into law the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) , focused on job [...]

The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon will begin work on March 1, according to the Tribunal's Registrar, Robin Vincent . The March 1 start date for the court, established at the request of the Lebanese government after the February 14, 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , will coincide with the scheduled [...]

La Shawn Barber : "U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder essentially called white Americans cowards for not talking enough about race. Holder, who obviously didn't let anything prevent him from succeeding, believes the nation should have one of those honest "dialogues" on race. The question is, where does Mr. Holder think we should begin the dialogue? [...]