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News Post-9/11 anti-terror case data inaccurate: DOJ audit
Post-9/11 anti-terror case data inaccurate: DOJ audit
Brett Murphy
February 20, 2007 02:01:00 pm

Federal investigators and prosecutors fudged data on the number of anti-terrorism investigations and cases for the four years after 9/11, according to an audit by US Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn A. Fine released Tuesday....

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News Supreme Court to hear NY trial judge selection, sentencing cases
Supreme Court to hear NY trial judge selection, sentencing cases
Brett Murphy
February 20, 2007 01:15:00 pm

The US Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases Tuesday, including one dealing with the procedure the state of New York employs to choose trial judges. In NY Board of Elections v. Torres, state...

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News Australia asks court to uphold control orders for terror suspect
Australia asks court to uphold control orders for terror suspect
Katerina Ossenova
February 20, 2007 01:07:00 pm

Lawyers for the Australian government argued that control orders do not violate the country's constitution during a Tuesday court hearing in the case of an Australian man convicted in February 2006 of receiving money from an al...

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News Federal appeals court upholds MCA habeas-stripping provisions
Federal appeals court upholds MCA habeas-stripping provisions
Jeannie Shawl
February 20, 2007 12:50:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled Tuesday that provisions in the Military Commissions Act stripping foreign nationals held as "enemy combatants" of the right to file habeas corpus...

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News Supreme Court overturns Philip Morris $80M punitive damages award
Supreme Court overturns Philip Morris $80M punitive damages award
Jeannie Shawl
February 20, 2007 10:18:00 am

The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in three cases Tuesday, including Philip Morris USA v. Williams , where the Court overturned a $79.5 million punitive damages verdict against...

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News Afghanistan upper house approves war crimes amnesty
Afghanistan upper house approves war crimes amnesty
Holly Manges Jones
February 20, 2007 08:17:00 am

The Meshrano Jirga , the upper house of the Afghanistan parliament , Tuesday approved a resolution calling for amnesty from war crimes prosecution for leaders of the Afghan mujahedeen resistance who fought against Soviet forces in the...

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Bangladesh authorities publishing list of corruption suspects
Holly Manges Jones
February 20, 2007 07:50:00 am

Authorities in Bangladesh plan to publish a list of several hundred people who are suspected of graft, following the Sunday arrests of 50 high-profile suspects, according to a government official. Delowar Hossain, secretary of the Anti-Corruption...

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News US lawmakers seek recognition for Latin American Japanese interned in WWII camps
US lawmakers seek recognition for Latin American Japanese interned in WWII camps
Caitlin Price
February 19, 2007 07:53:00 pm

Two US Congressmen Monday pressed their case for legislation investigating the treatment of 2,300 Japanese descendants from 13 Latin American countries held in US internment camps during World War II. Bill sponsors Reps. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) and Dan Lungren...

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News Madrid train bombings trial judge seeks declassification of ETA documentation
Madrid train bombings trial judge seeks declassification of ETA documentation
Caitlin Price
February 19, 2007 07:02:00 pm

The lead judge in the mass trial of suspects in the 2004 Madrid train bombings asked the Spanish government Monday to declassify documents allegedly linking a defendant to the Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA)...

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News Canada judge halts Air India bombing inquiry pending documents disclosure
Canada judge halts Air India bombing inquiry pending documents disclosure
Brett Murphy
February 19, 2007 02:02:00 pm

Former Canadian Supreme Court Justice John Major temporarily closed proceedings on the 1985 Air India bombing investigation on Monday until certain documents are publicly released. Major said he cannot carry out the probe without particular...

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World court established at The Hague

On December 13, 1920, the League of Nations Assembly, sitting in Geneva, approved the statute setting up the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague. Learn more about the Permanent Court of International Justice. Visit the website of the Permanent Court's successor body, the International Court of Justice.

President Wilson arrives in France to negotiate WWI treaty

On December 13, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson arrived in France to negotiate a treaty to conclude World War I. Wilson was the first US President to visit Europe while in office. His meeting with the other Allied leaders would result in the Treaty of Versailles, which created the League of Nations and redrew borders across Europe. The treaty, however, was rejected by the US Senate, thus preventing the U.S. from joining the League with the other major powers.

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