Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency, April 28, 2006 . Excerpt: All the nuclear material declared by Iran to the Agency is accounted for. Apart fiom the small quantities previously reported to the Board, the Agency has found no other undeclared nuclear material in Iran. [...]
Projet de loi relatif à l'immigration et à l'intégration . Excerpt from the "Exposé des motifs", by French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy: L'immigration demeure aujourd'hui sans rapport avec les capacités d'accueil de la France et ses besoins économiques. L'immigration à des fins professionnelles, qui représente à peine 7 % des flux doit être encouragée car [...]
Leading Tuesday's international brief, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has resigned his position, removing the last legal hurdle to the formation of a new Italian government under Prime Minister-elect Romano Prodi . Berlusconi has been asked to stay in the government by Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi until a smooth transition can be arranged. Prodi [...]
The Administrative Court of Thailand said Tuesday that it will probably release a decision in mid-May on whether the country's April 2 general election should be annulled. Considering its overlapping jurisdiction with two other Thai courts, including the Constitutional Court of Thailand which agreed Monday to consider a petition to void the election , it [...]
US courts approved 1,773 requests for wiretaps last year in state and federal investigations, a four percent increase from the prior year, according to the 2005 Wiretap Report released Monday by the Administrative Office of the US Courts . In state courts, wiretap applications grew by 17 percent to 1,148 requests with New York (391), [...]
The US has urged Nigeria against amending its constitution to allow current President Olusegun Obasanjo to run for a third term in office. In an unusual statement, the US Embassy in Abujah said the US "respects the right of any country to amend its constitution through democratic, transparent and legal means" but suggested that term [...]
The trial for former Alabama Governor Donald Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy begins Tuesday as the pair face federal bribery and racketeering charges . Siegelman is accused of accepting bribes from contractors to award state work, and Scrushy allegedly paid $500,000 to pay off Siegelman's 1999 campaigning debts in exchange for Scrushy being [...]
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin expressed support Tuesday for a proposed immigration law , but indicated that its language could be amended after meeting over the weekend with leaders of the Catholic and Protestant churches in France, who oppose the bill. The National Assembly will first consider the measure Tuesday afternoon, but religious and [...]
Iran Monday denounced what it called US 'threats' of possible military action against it in connection with its development of nuclear technology as illegal and urged UN action. Iranian ambassador to the UN Javad Zarif said in a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan that "US dailies are publishing stories about possibility of aggression on [...]
A Turkish appeals court has rejected a prosecutor's recommendation and has ruled that charges still stand against Hrant Dink, a high-profile Turkish-Armenian journalist and editor of the newspaper Agos who has written about the killings of an estimated million Ottoman Armenians in the early 20th century. Accused of publicly denigrating or insulting Turkishness under controversial [...]