New Jersey US District Judge Robert Kugler Monday sentenced Albanian Kosovar refugee Agron Abdullahu , one of the six men arrested in May for plotting an attack on New Jersey's Fort Dix , to 20 months in prison. In October 2007, Abdullahu pleaded guilty to charges of "conspiring to provide firearms and ammunition" to the [...]

A gag order precluding former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks from speaking to the media expired on Sunday, but Hicks is reportedly "not interested at the moment" in speaking publicly about his detention. Hicks had agreed not to speak publicly before March 30, 2008 about his detention as a condition of his release from an [...]

The US Department of Defense Monday charged Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani with several terrorism-related counts under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 stemming from his alleged involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania . The charges include providing material support to terrorism, murder in violation of the Law of [...]

Chadian President Idriss Deby Monday officially pardoned six French aid workers convicted in Chad in December of attempting to kidnap 103 African children. The six were handed over to French custody in December to serve their sentences. Chad's Higher Judicial Council on Friday recommended that Deby pardon the French workers. Earlier this month Deby had [...]

Terry Gorman : "At a press conference on March 27,2008, Rhode Island Governor Carcieri issued an Executive Order to control rapidly escalating cost of illegal immigration in Rhode Island. The Order requires the Executive Branch to register and use E-verify for all new hires, check the validity of Social Security numbers that are submitted and [...]

EULEX Kosovo head Yves de Kermabon said Monday that a 1,800-strong European Union police and justice mission in Kosovo will go forward even in Serbian-controlled areas, despite reservations from some EU member states. Spain's Foreign Affairs Ministry said Monday that the country will not send personnel to the mission until the handover from the current [...]

The Constitutional Court of Turkey voted 11-0 Monday to hear a bid to disband the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) , days after a warning by the EU Enlargement Commissioner that an AKP ban could have serious ramifications for Turkey's bid to join the European Union . Earlier this month, Chief Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear two cases involving the First Amendment Monday, including Pleasant Grove City v. Summum (07-665) , in which the Court will consider whether a private, religious group can donate a monument for display in a public park. Specifically, the Court must decide whether the situation implicates government speech [...]

Zimbabwean Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Public Affairs Minister Chen Chimutengwende were confirmed ousted Monday as returns came in from Saturday's general elections in the country, but other election results continue to be delayed, according to media reports. Zimbabwe opposition parties renewed allegations that the government had rigged the local, senate, assembly and presidential elections, [...]

US Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. unveiled a plan to overhaul the nation's financial regulatory system and merge key federal administrative agencies in remarks at a press conference in Washington Monday. The executive summary of the Treasury's Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory Structure described the initiative as presentinga series of "short-term" and "intermediate-term" [...]