US Democrat offers bill to arm Syrians

A law change to give the Defence Force powers to arrest and detain anti-mining protesters in the deep seas and impose stiff penalties on those protesters will not be subjected to the usual processes of public input or a Bill of Rights Act vet by the ...

After a top Indian diplomat was accused of manipulation by South Africa to obtain permission for landing of an aircraft chartered by a well-connected Indian family at a military air base in Pretoria, India has said there was proper authorisation and some wedding guests on board the plane had invitations for bilateral engagements. "The senior Indian officials and their delegations were in South Africa for bilateral engagements with the Free State government," the High Commission said in a ...

Addressing AusCERT 2013 at the Gold Coast, Queensland on Wednesday, retired US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel and author of 21st Century Chinese Cyber Warfare, Bill Hagestad said that many are playing a dangerous game by pointing the blame for ...

The Queen's Speech sets out the government's legislative programme for the next year. Here is a guide to all the bills in it. This bill is designed to make it easier to deport people who do not have the right to stay in the UK, and to prevent ...

The Government Communications Security Bureau could soon be able to provide support to the police, the New Zealand Defence Force and the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, including in relation to New Zealanders, under a proposed law change ...

Cyber attacks on New Zealand are increasing and it's essential the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) has authority to investigate them, Prime Minister John Key says. He has revealed that so far this year there have been 138 cyber ...

Finance Minister Abdulla Jihad sought authorisation from parliament yesterday (April 29) to divert MVR 650 million (US$42 million) allocated for infrastructure projects in the budget to cover recurrent expenditure. Appealing for approval from ...

This could be the final week of the parliamentary year - if the Lords and Commons can agree on the final form of several bills, in the usual year-end frenzy of parliamentary ping-pong. Several key issues still have to be sorted out, with the ...

In the face of stiff resistance from the armed forces, the Parliamentary Committee on Defence has recommended that the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) be given powers of civil contempt as many of its orders are not being implemented despite its having ...