Australia oil-for-food report [Australia AG] News
Australia oil-for-food report [Australia AG]

Report of the Inquiry into certain Australian companies in relation to the UN oil-for-food program, Australian Government Attorney, November 27, 2006 [Cole Commission report recommending that criminal charges be brought against 12 business executives for paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime, but exonerating the Australian government of any wrongdoing]. Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Massachusetts instituted death penalty for heresy

On November 4, 1646, the Massachusetts General Court approved a law requiring all members of the colony to recognize the Bible as the Word of God, under penalty of death.  

Israel PM Yitzhak Rabin assassinated

On November 4, 1995, Yigal Amir shot and killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in response to the Oslo Accords peace agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Amir was tried and given a life sentence for the murder. Learn more about the trial of Yigal Amir from the New York Times.