Immigration and human rights experts say that no other developed country has passed an immigration law as stringent as Alabama’s.
A new New York City education policy that mandates comprehensive sex education in all city public schools has caused ire within the Vatican.
BERLIN — President Obama’s push for additional economic stimulus is not just hitting a wall in Congress. The president has also been rebuffed by the largest European countries — with potentially profound consequences for the U.S. economy and Obama’s national agenda.
[Economy1] In the run-up to the G-20 summit in More…
Simple answer: because the deeper the Europeans dig, the more member countries get covered in the same dirt. Italy did it with JPMorgan Chase, their municipalities did it with whomever they could, France did it but already got caught and reports today More…
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary-general, said yesterday that he has received pledges from partner nations for an additional 5,000 troops in advance of tomorrow’s NATO foreign ministerial meeting in Brussels. He added that “several thousand” more may be possible. But if the ministerial concludes with the 5,000 troops More…
The Department of Justice announced today that four more detainees from Guantanamo Bay have been transferred: one to Hungary, one to France, and two to Italy.
Sabrina deSouza is one of the 23 U.S. officials convicted in Italy for the illegal CIA rendition of an Egyptian terrorist suspect named Abu Omar. She concedes the United States “broke the law” in ordering and carrying out the rendition, and says, “we are paying for the mistakes right More…
Breaking news from Reuters:
An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in a landmark ruling against the “rendition” flights used by the former U.S. government.
The Americans were tried in More…
It’s hard to know what to make of this, but The Times of London has an explosive and very detailed story claiming that Italian intelligence operatives paid bribes to Taliban fighters who ended up brutally killing and mutilating eight French soldiers in Afghanistan last year. The Italian government More…
Obama on rendition, to The New York Times. I’m transcribing from the audio.
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