Kuwaiti Justice Minister Ahmad Baqer said Saturday that Kuwait has prepared its own indictment against former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein for crimes against the emirate during the 1990-1991 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and that that indictment "calls for Saddam's death." Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990, and occupied it for seven months until the [...]

The Washington Post reported Saturday that a group of former aides and other Republicans are quietly boosting the Supreme Court nomination of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales by shoring up his reputation among conservatives. Former Gonzales deputy David Leith said supporters do not want to "see a good man who has been a very solid conservative [...]

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani , now on a visit to the United States, insisted Friday at a Washington press conference that if the draft Iraqi constitution is not adopted in a referendum next month there would be no civil war in Iraq. Talabani's comments came on the same day that lawmakers in Iraq said that [...]

The head of UK security service MI5 has warned that civil liberties might need to be "eroded" in order to protect the British people from terrorism after the "shock" of the London bombings . Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller , MI5's director general, made her remarks in a speech delivered Setember 1 at The Hague on the [...]

President George W. Bush has issued an executive order allowing federal contractors working to rebuild areas damaged by Hurricane Katrina to pay lower wages, effectively suspending regulations under the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act requiring contractors to pay workers the minimum of prevailing wages for federally-funded construction projects that are in excess of $2,000. The President is [...]

US District Court Judge Janet Hall Friday agreed with the American Civil Liberties Union that a gag order shielding the identity of librarians who had received an FBI demand for records about library patrons under the Patriot Act prevented their library client from participating in the public Patriot Act debate. The unnamed library and the [...]

Fresh from talks this week with other justice and interior ministers of the European Union , British Home Secretary Charles Clarke said Friday that Britain, currently holding the EU presidency, wants the EU to implement a new set of anti-terror measures before the end of the year. He said an agreement must be made among [...]

New Orleans city attorney Sherry Landry said Friday that the city is now "fully secured" following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina and the disorder that broke out afterwards. She told a news conference that "Fourteen thousand troops are in Orleans Parish. At present they are actively patrolling all areas of the city and running [...]

Pharmaceutical company Merck. said Friday that it has no plans to make a comprehensive deal to settle the thousands of cases against the company concerning side effects of its arthritis drug Vioxx . The drug was withdrawn from the market last year, after a study found the drug to increase the risk of heart attack [...]

An Australian lawyers group is describing new anti-terrorism legislation proposed by Australian Prime Minister John Howard as "draconian" and has called on regional governments to reject it. The Law Society of New South Wales said Friday that the proposal threatened civil rights and Howard had failed to justify the expansion of police powers included in [...]