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Bloomberg  is reporting:
The American crew of a container ship seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia regained control today to end what may have been the first hijacking of a U.S. vessel in four years of attacks.
One pirate may still be on the ship, held by the crew of 20, and the others have left, said a U.S. defense …

From the Huffington Post:
Somali pirates on Wednesday hijacked a U.S.-flagged cargo ship with 20 American crew members onboard, hundreds of miles from the nearest American military vessel in some of the most dangerous waters in the world.The 17,000-ton Maersk Alabama was carrying emergency relief to Mombasa, Kenya, when it was hijacked, said Peter Beck-Bang, spokesman for the Copenhagen-based container shipping …

A previous post discussed the recent decision by the Spanish national security court to investigate several former Bush Administration lawyers. My good friend and UCLA Law legend, Steve Bainbridge, has some cautionary words on the application of the principle of universal jurisdiction. Universal jurisdiction, it will be recalled, is a principle of international law that allows a state to exercise …

Here is a transcript of her remarks:
Ambassador Rice: Good evening, the Council as you know met in an emergency session today and we heard from members a very uniform– and strong statements of– concern about the implications of this action for peace and security internationally, as well as in the region. The United States expressed its strong view that the …

President Obama delivered a remarkable speech in Prague earlier today in which he outlined steps for a new US nuclear policy. The BBC video of the full speech can be found here. Below is an excerpt from the text:
Now, one of those issues that I’ll focus on today is fundamental to the security of our nations and to the peace …

The New York Times is reporting:
North Korea defied the United States, China and a series of United Nations resolutions by launching a rocket on Sunday that the country said was designed to propel a satellite into space, but that much of the world viewed as an effort to prove it is edging toward the capability to shoot a nuclear warhead …

From Rep. Nadler’s press release:
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, along with Reps. Jeff Flake (AZ-06), William Delahunt (MA-10) and Ron Paul (TX-14), today reintroduced the National Security Letters Reform Act of 2009, a bipartisan bill designed to provide crucial checks against the overreaching and dangerous National Security …

Brian Murphy over at The Huffington Post reports:
Qatar’s leader embraced Sudan’s president in a red-carpet welcome Sunday as he arrived to attend an Arab Summit in his most brazen act of defiance against an international arrest warrant on charges of war crimes in Darfur.
For host Qatar _ a key U.S. ally that is home to American warplanes and more than …