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Scotland justice minister defends Lockerbie bomber release

August 24, 2009 01:03:00 PM

Scottish Justice Minister Kennny MacAskill defended his order to release to Libya convicted Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi in front of an emergency session ...

August 21, 2009 02:38:00 PM

US officials on Thursday sharply criticized Scotland's decision to release convicted Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi . Megrahi was recently diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer was released Thursday to...

August 20, 2009 11:33:00 AM

Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill announced Thursday that convicted Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi is being released from prison on compassionate grounds and transferred to his...

August 18, 2009 01:01:00 PM

The Scottish High Court of the Judiciary on Tuesday accepted a request from convicted Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi to withdraw a pending appeal to his 2001 conviction....

August 14, 2009 03:13:00 PM

Convicted Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi on Friday asked the Scottish High Court of the Judiciary to allow him to withdraw the second appeal of his...

January 9, 2009 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist and German human rights lawyer Stefan Kirchner, a member of the American Society of International Law and the Faculty of Law at Georg-August-University in Gottingen, says that new litigation between Germany and Italy in the International Court...

November 14, 2008 10:06:00 AM

A panel of Scotland's High Court of Justiciary Friday denied bail to convicted Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi . The plane was blown up...

November 1, 2008 10:39:00 AM

US Assistant Secretary of State David Welch announced Friday that Libya has made its final deposit to a $1.5 billion fund for US terrorism victims. Under a US-Libya agreement concluded in August, President...

October 10, 2008 12:50:00 AM

US Assistant Secretary of State David Welch said Thursday that Libya has made an initial deposit into a US government account as part of a deal to settle claims involving Libyan-linked terrorism in the 1980s. Under the...

August 14, 2008 03:16:00 PM

The United States and Libya reached an agreement on Thursday to settle all pending lawsuits brought by US terror victims against Libya, including 26 lawsuits related to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am...

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Line of Demarcation divides the New World between Spain and Portugal

On May 4, 1493, Pope Alexander VI promulgated the Line of Demarcation, dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal in response the return of Christopher Columbus from his discovery of the American continents. However, neither country was entirely satisfied with the placement of the Line. A year later on June 7, 1494, the two nations signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which moved the Line of Demarcation further west, giving Portugal claim to Brazil.

Kent State student shootings precipitated lawsuits

On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen at Kent State University opened fire on students protesting the US invasion of Cambodia, killing four.

Review a legal chronology of the Kent State shootings, from May 5, 1970 (the day the FBI investigation started) to January 4, 1979 (the day the state of Ohio reached an out-of-court settlement for $675,000 with victims and relatives of victims).