LONDON (Reuters) - The government said on Tuesday it was dropping plans to bring in compulsory biometric identity cards for airport workers and that the multi-billion pound scheme would remain voluntary. Home Secretary Alan Johnson said the government was going ahead ...Read More
Scores of Cubans have been detained as political prisoners since Raul Castro assumed power three years ago, a human-rights organization reported Wednesday, suggesting that there has been little change in the repressive system that existed under his brother Fidel. Human Rights ...Read More
Last month's arrest of a Florida-born West Bank resident by Israeli security forces is the most potent example yet of the threat posed by the Jewish Settler movement to Israel's democratic soul. Yet the bloody paper trail left by admitted murderer Jacob Teitel ...Read More
A leading police officer has called for neighbouring forces to merge in an attempt to cut costs.
The reforms outlined by Sir Hugh Orde, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, would involve the biggest change in policing for nearly ...Read More
In an article in American Vogue magazine in which Mr Miliband was described as "tall and dashing", the interviewer joked about developing a crush on the 44-year-old home secretary after hearing his British accent on the telephone.
"Well, if you saw ...Read More
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA — Thailand said Friday it would not be provoked into violence in its diplomatic tussle with Cambodia over fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, even as the ousted leader taunted the Bangkok government by meeting with political ...Read More
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Attorney General Bill McCollum wants Florida lawmakers to make it tougher for former felons to get occupational and professional licenses. McCollum on Tuesday urged the Legislature to repeal a law that requires the state to grant licenses to ...Read More
Alan Johnson's defence of his damaging and rather crass decision to sack Professor David Nutt (Letters, 2 November) contained errors of fact, as well as errors of judgment. Professor Nutt was not the home secretary's "principal adviser". I presume that ...Read More
It has emerged the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) is under review just days after Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, ordered Prof Nutt to step down after accusing him of "crossing the line" for criticising Government policy, ...Read More
Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court has refused a lower court's unusual request to decide whether a shocking 45-year-old civil rights crime can be prosecuted decades later.
The justices Monday dismissed an appeal involving James Ford Seale, convicted in the 1964 ...Read More
WASHINGTON ? The Supreme Court today left in place a judge's ruling that allowed prosecutors to charge a reputed Ku Klux Klansman with kidnapping more than 40 years after two black men were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi. The justices ...Read More
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a judge's ruling that allowed prosecutors to charge a reputed Ku Klux Klansman with kidnapping more than 40 years after two black men were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi. The ...Read More
The furore over his departure has led to predictions of mass resignations from the country's drugs advisory panel which could leave the service in disarray. Dr Les King, a panel member, resigned in protest on Sunday, followed by Marion Walker, a ...Read More
The home secretary has defended sacking the UK's chief drugs adviser after his criticism of the government's tough approach to cannabis and ecstasy. In a letter to the Guardian, Alan Johnson says Prof David Nutt went against a "long established" principle ...Read More
A row has broken out in Britain, after the chief drugs adviser to the government was sacked when he said alcohol and cigarettes were more dangerous than cannabis.
Other scientists on the drugs advisory council have resigned in protest, complaining the ...Read More
The home secretary faces mass resignations from the government's drug advisory body over his decision to force out its chairman, who accused ministers of distorting scientific evidence on cannabis.
Two members of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs resigned ...Read More
A second adviser to the government has resigned in protest at Home Secretary Alan Johnson's sacking of his chief drugs adviser, Prof David Nutt. Marion Walker's departure from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs came after Dr Les King's ...Read More
ATLANTA—A neighborhood activist with crossover appeal on the verge of making history. A city leader with a civil rights legacy. A native son seen by some as the heir apparent to the city's first black mayor.
Three of Atlanta's prominent political ...Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) - Trumpeting a victory against careless spending, President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a defense bill that kills some costly weapons projects and expands war spending. In a major civil rights change, the law also makes it a ...Read More
Everybody has his or her own take on Paul Haggis' dramatic letter, announcing his break with Scientology after 35 years of membership in the church. But what especially fascinated me was how much his letter, full of passion and moral ...Read More
The Church of Scientology is responding to claims that the religion is anti-gay, an allegation made by “Crash” director Paul Haggis, who is publicly denouncing the church’s practices.
“I don’t want any misunderstanding,” said Tommy Davis, a spokesperson for Scientology. “The ...Read More
