US District Judge Robert G. Doumar has said that he will not grant the Sudanese government's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of sailors killed in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole . Although he has not issued a formal ruling on the issue, Doumar said during a hearing Thursday to determine [...]
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A group of lawmakers from the US Senate and House of Representatives on Thursday introduced the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act , which would give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the same authority to regulate tobacco products as it has over other consumer products. The bill, which cites the dangers of tobacco [...]
US District Judge Charles S. Haight ruled Thursday that the New York Police Department (NYPD) must stop its practice of videotaping lawful public gatherings and preserving the videotapes and adhere to the so-called "Modified Handschu Guidelines" developed by prior court rulings, which govern police surveillance. Haight is responsible for overseeing the terms of a settlement [...]
Italian Judge Caterina Interlandi issued indictments Friday for 31 US and Italian intelligence agents for their alleged role in the February 17, 2003 abduction and extraordinary rendition of alleged terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr in Milan. Prosecutor Armando Spataro has alleged that 25 Americans working for the Central Intelligence Agency, one United States Air [...]
Executive Order on Trial of Alien Unlawful Enemy Combatants by Military Commission, President George W. Bush, February 14, 2007 . Read the full text of the order. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons is under investigation by the FBI for allegedly failing to report gifts and payments given by a defense technology company that received secret military contracts while Gibbons was still a US congressman, an anonymous FBI source confirmed to the AP Thursday. The investigation is focusing on allegations that Gibbons' longtime friend, [...]
Chief of the Russian Military General Staff Yuri Baluyevsky told Russian media Thursday that Russia might unilaterally opt out of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty (INF) if the US continues efforts to establish missile defense systems in Central Europe. Baluyevsky has previously criticized the establishment of the missile defense bases in Central Europe. Just [...]
Canada's conservative government retreated Thursday from earlier statements that the government would ignore a bill (C-288) passed by the House of Commons Wednesday requiring the government to establish a plan within 60 days for greenhouse gas emission cuts mandated by the Kyoto Protocol . While Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper initially announced that he would [...]
The judiciary committee of the Montana Senate endorsed a bill Thursday that would abolish the death penalty . By an 8-4 margin, the committee voted to send the SB 306 to the full state senate for consideration. Similar legislation has been introduced in the past three Montana Senate legislative sessions without success. Montana has executed [...]
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contacted Italian intelligence about the possibility of performing extraordinary renditions in the days following the September 11 attacks, according to testimony during Italian judicial proceedings against US and Italian agents on Thursday. The proceedings center around the alleged 2003 kidnapping and extraordinary rendition of Muslim cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan [...]
