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Seven Nigerian politicians go on trial for corruption

[JURIST] The former Nigerian education minister, former senate leader, and five other Nigerian lawmakers went on trial for corruption Monday in the capital city of Abuja. Ex-Education Minister Fabian Osuji is accused of paying a $400,000 bribe to parliament in order to get an inflated budget for his department passed. The trial is part of an anti-corruption drive [AllAfrica.com report; 2003 CHRRD report on Nigerian corruption; Nigeria Economic and Financial Crimes Commission website] by Nigerian Pesident Olusegun Obasanjo [Wikipedia profile]. BBC News has more.

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UN General Assembly approves Palestine partition plan

The UN General Assembly approved UN Resolution Resolution 181 (II) on November 29, 1947, recommending that the British Mandate for Palestine be split into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone for Jerusalem. The vote in the assembly was 33 for to 13 against, with 10 abstentions. The resolution sparked a war between Palestinian Arabs and Jews in 1947 and a wider war after Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon invaded the new State of Israel in 1948. Read Resolution 181 (II).

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