New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued a new emergency order Tuesday evening authorizing public safety officers in the city – including police, firemen, and members of the US military – to force the removal of anyone not engaged in the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort. This latest evacuation order supercedes the mandatory evacuation order Nagin issued [...]

Iraqi president Jalal Talabani said in an interview on al-Iraqiya state TV broadcast late Tuesday that ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein , now in custody pending trials for crimes again humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal , had confessed before an investigating judge to crimes "such as executions." The confession, Talabani said, had come "from [...]

Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, executives at DaimlerChrysler have denied that they were involved in insider trading. German media are reporting that DaimlerChrysler's chief spokesman Hartmut Schick and executive board member Ruediger Grube are under investigation for insider trading relating to the surprise resignation of CEO Juergen Schrempp in July . German media [...]

In Tuesday's environmental law news, an Indonesian court heard arguments Tuesday on whether it should proceed with a criminal trial of US-based Newmont Mining Corp. for alleged pollution in Buyat Bay. The hearing had been postponed in August when the country's Supreme Court ordered two of the judges back to Jakarta for training on environmental [...]

Leading Tuesday's states brief, a North Carolina court of appeals has ruled that promotional game pieces packaged with telephone long-distance cards are not part of an illegal lottery. State officials claimed that Treasured Arts, Inc.'s long-distance telephone cards were an illegal form of gambling because the cards offered scratch-off game pieces with prizes up to [...]

The Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court has overturned a lower court decision allowing rights groups to monitor polling stations during the country's first multi-candidate presidential elections on Wednesday. The holding, in which the court ruled that the Presidential Election Commission's decisions are not subject to judicial review, appears to avoid conflict after the commission said it [...]

UN diplomats continued feverish negotiations Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to prepare a coherent platform of agreed reforms in time for the World Summit 2005 , but an impasse persists with only days remaining. In the most recent setback, UN General Assembly President Jean Ping cancelled a news conference set for last Friday in which [...]

Morgan Stanley has agreed to a $700,000 settlement over claims of improper trading in a couple's brokerage account, the Delaware Department of Justice said Tuesday. According to a 2003 complaint filed by the Securities Division of the department, two Morgan Stanley brokers made hundreds of unauthorized transactions on the Delaware couple's account. The settlement amount [...]

US and international human rights groups Tuesday condemned the failure of authorities to protect victims of Hurricane Katrina who were left for days without relief in increasingly desperate conditions in New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf Coast area. The US Human Rights Network urged in a statement that the rights of the hundreds of thousands [...]

Several US Supreme Court justices and many other Americans lined the Great Hall of the nation's high court Tuesday to pay final respects to the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist . Rehnquist's flag-draped casket was carried into the Great Hall among marble busts of former chief justices and placed upon the historic Lincoln Catafalque, [...]