Santa Clara Superior Court Judge James P. Kleinberg ruled Friday that Apple Computer could subpoena the e-mail records of the PowerPage Macintosh enthusiast website. Apple has been engaged in legal actions against PowerPage and other Mac fan sites alleging that they published trade secrets about new Apple products; the site owners have argued that they [...]

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A US Department of Justice report released Friday described allegations of mistreatment of Muslim prisoners at several US federal prisons and documented one instance where a warden and guards discriminated and retaliated against Muslim inmates who had complained. The allegations and findings were contained in a regular semi-annual report of alleged civil liberties and civil [...]

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Polish authorities have arrested five officers, including a colonel and two majors, for allegedly accepting bribes from both US and Iraqi companies while serving in Iraq. Officials from the Polish Defense Ministry claimed that two of the officers were caught red-handed in a Polish airport on their way back from Iraq with $90,000 in cash [...]

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With a political compromise over the controversial UK Prevention of Terrorism Bill accepted , the House of Lords approved the latest Commons version of the anti-terror legislation early Friday evening London time, ending the deadlock between the two houses and opening the way for formal royal assent later tonight. BBC News has more.

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Conservative leader Michael Howard has said he has accepted a compromise offer by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair that would likely push through contentious anti-terror legislation that had the Commons and Lords locked in back-and-forth debate Thursday night through Friday morning. Under the offer, Blair promised to allow the Commons to review the Prevention of [...]

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Nepal Friday released former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and 17 others held since King Gyanendra dismissed the elected government and seized power on Feb. 1 . Several other leaders still remain under house arrest, including Nepal's first elected prime minister, Girija Prasad Koirala, and opposition leader Madhav Kumar Nepal. The Nepalese government has come [...]

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