Trade unions say there will be a general strike unless new job laws, which triggered riots in Paris, are withdrawn.

AP - An Afghan man who allegedly converted from Islam to Christianity is being prosecuted in a Kabul court and could be sentenced to death, a judge said Sunday.

Families say plant violated nuclear waste laws and hire Illinois injury lawyers Power Rogers & Smith to represent them. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2006] Trackback URI: http://www.prweb.com/zingpr.php/WmV0YS1UaGlyLUNyYXMtTWFnbi1IYWxmLVplcm8=

Reuters - The Dutch government is furious after an Italian minister this week branded the country's euthanasia laws as akin to the policies of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, according to Dutch news agency ANP.

AFP - Paris police have arrested 187 people in connection with violent clashes that followed demonstrations against new labour laws, the city's police chief Pierre Mutz said.

Families say plant violated nuclear waste laws and hire Illinois injury lawyers Power Rogers & Smith to represent them. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2006]

Matthew Borghese - AHN Staff Writer Montgomery, Alabama (AHN) - Alabama is taking a hard look at segregation laws which put possibly thousands of people in jail, and may make amends with new legislation. Following the death of civil rights icon, Rosa Parks, many in the formerly segregated...

MPs accuse the government of mishandling last year's introduction of 24-hour drinking.

AP - President Bush signed legislation Thursday that strengthens laws targeting counterfeit goods, ranging from knockoff auto parts to fake designer purses.

A Florida judge formally sentenced mechanic Joseph P. Smith to die for the 2004 murder of Carlie Brucia, the 11-year-old girl whose abduction was captured by a security camera and shown around the world. "Pursuant to the laws of Florida, (you) have forfeited your right to live," Judge Andrew Owens told Smith.

Julie Farby - AHN Staff Writer Chicago, IL (AHN) - In the wake of successful constitutional amendments or laws banning gay marriage, several states are considering laws focusing on adoption by homosexual couples. At the front of the debate against same-sex couple adoption is often the Catholic...

Copyright laws worldwide should be drastically modernized so that they can foster the proper use of new communication technologies.In their present state, copyright laws are helping those who want to use technology to maintain an artificial cultural scarcity, where the same technology should now allow abundance for all in the highest respect of creators. [PRWEB Mar 15, 2006]

AFP - Nine Paris police officers were injured amid escalating student protests over proposed youth employment laws which have affected over half of France's universities and left the government struggling to avoid political damage.

Danielle George - AHN Staff Reporter Paris, France (AHN) - Students vow to continue challenging the French government to develop new laws that revise youth employment contracts. Student unions are now planning street demonstrations against the law on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The...

Certain changes in the bankruptcy laws, which were enacted 'under the radar screen' afford dramatic improvements in the rights of commercial landlords, at just the time when they might come in handiest, due to a slowing economy and softer real estate values. [PRWEB Mar 12, 2006]

Lynda Fisher - AHN Staff Writer San Jose, CA (AHN) - Police have searched the Costa Rican home of a Web site operator and seized documents, computers and weapons. Calvin Ayre, who owns www.bodog.com , has allegedly violated gaming laws, according to authorities. The Canadian millionaire's site...

AP - States have steadily limited the public's access to government information since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a new Associated Press analysis of laws in all 50 states has found. Legislatures have passed more than 1,000 laws changing access to information, approving more than twice as many measures that restrict information as laws that open government books.

AP - The scuttling by Congress of a Dubai-owned company's bid to gain control of U.S. port operations is unlikely to trigger negative economic consequences unless it is followed by dramatic changes to the laws governing foreign investment in the United States, global trade experts said Friday.

AFP - An interior design firm caught using pirated software has become the first company in Singapore to be criminally charged under tougher copyright laws, court documents showed.

A Briton who spent more than six months in a US jail vows to join the fight against new fast track extradition laws.