British members of a parliamentary committee dealing with the media are now broadening a planned inquiry into privacy law and press regulation.
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The report has plenty of comfort for more serious-minded journalists, as well as for the campaigning groups, scientists and others who worry about the chilling effect of libel law on press freedom.
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During his fourteen years in power he changed Venezuela from a poor country with democratic institutions, a rule of law and freedom of the press to an even poorer country with a quasi-dictatorship, no rule of law and no freedom of the press.
Labour leader Ed Miliband has joined Mr Clegg in supporting a new press law.
She gave us a copy of a memo she'd prepared for him on the state of student press law.
Government business managers would have faced the choice between losing those measures or keeping them with a press law attached.
Aung Kyi will meet Saturday with members of the council, which is drafting a separate press law that it says will protect journalists' rights.
The current Slovak government recently introduced a worryingly broad press law that allows those criticised by the newspapers the right to a prominent rebuttal.
The prime minister is understood to have told Mr Clegg and Mr Miliband by phone on Thursday that he would not accept a press law of any kind.
Mr Cameron said a press law had been avoided - although he conceded the clauses were "two very important but relatively small legislative changes" that needed to be made.
Mr Cameron believes enshrining it in law will harm press freedom but Mr Clegg and Mr Miliband insist on it - they say the rules would lack impact without it.
The Zimbabwe government focused on me and they thought that by throwing me in jail, by putting me on trial under their new anti-press law that they could frighten me into leaving the country.
However, even though they could defeat and embarrass David Cameron that coalition could not force a new press law into being (since it is the government that controls the parliamentary time needed to pass legislation).
At a news conference Thursday, the group Hacked Off, which represents phone-hacking victims, celebrities such as actor Hugh Grant, journalism experts and others, urged Mr. Cameron to reconsider his position and support a new British press law.
Business minister Viscount Younger of Leckie insisted Culture Secretary Maria Miller would "not shy away" from a press law as a last resort if a new system of self-regulation could not be made to work, but was "committed to a non-statutory route".
The Tories who argued for no press law of any sort now appear to have conceded the need for a legal clause designed to give parliament the assurance that the new press regulator cannot be amended by a minister under pressure from the press without the agreement of MPs.
If Leveson recommends any form of new law to regulate the press the prime minister will face an unpalatable choice.
Spitzer's authority comes from the Martin Act, a sweeping 80-year-old state law that lets him press criminal or civil charges in securities cases.
Senior Conservative MP David Davis welcomed "wholeheartedly" the prime minister's "caution" of enshrining press regulation in law.
He recommended the legislation enshrine freedom of the press in British law and suggested that Ofcom, the U.K. communications regulator, ensure the new oversight body's independence and effectiveness.
Mr Cameron is opposed to enshrining the royal charter in law, saying it will harm press freedom.
Two anonymous law enforcement officials told the Associated Press Todashev was shot after attacking the FBI agent with a knife.
Also Thursday, a Los Angeles law enforcement source told The Associated Press that investigators found Diprivan, a powerful sedative, in Jackson's home.
"For the first time we would have crossed the Rubicon of writing elements of press regulation into the law of the land, " Mr. Cameron added.
Mr Cameron told MPs that legislation backing a regulatory body could "cross the Rubicon" by writing elements of press regulation into the law for the first time.
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Tazhayakov was allowed to return to the U.S. from Kazakhstan in January despite not having a valid student visa, a federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
The investigation was triggered when banks noticed frequent cash transfers from several accounts and filed suspicious-activity reports with the Internal Revenue Service, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press.
Brands and McDonald's, agreed to worker representation in 2007 after being slammed in the Chinese press for breaking the law in their payment of students (the charges turned out to be false).
Petraeus and Broadwell, whose book All In: The Education of David Petraeus, eulogized Petreaus extensively, were thought to have been careful to avoid leaving any e-mail trails during their affair, law enforcement officials told the Associated Press.
The papers were served about 1345 local time (1845 GMT) on Thursday as Sir Allen sat in a car, and the authorities do not believe he had been purposely hiding from them, an unnamed law enforcement source told the Associated Press.
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