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News UK Law Lords deny appeal of alleged hacker set for extradition to US
UK Law Lords deny appeal of alleged hacker set for extradition to US
Deirdre Jurand
July 30, 2008 09:49:00 am

UK House of Lords judges Wednesday denied the appeal of a man accused of hacking US government computers in 2001 and 2002 who had argued that his extradition to the US would...

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News Europe rights commissioner urges change in ‘severe’ Italian policies on minorities
Europe rights commissioner urges change in ‘severe’ Italian policies on minorities
Devin Montgomery
July 30, 2008 08:55:00 am

Council of Europe (COE) Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg Tuesday urged Italy to change immigration and preemptive crime policies that he says marginalize the country's Roma and Sinti minorities . Hammarberg memorandum [text; press...

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News Karadzic transferred to Hague tribunal for war crimes trial
Karadzic transferred to Hague tribunal for war crimes trial
Deirdre Jurand
July 30, 2008 08:48:00 am

Serbian authorities Wednesday transferred Bosnian Serb leader and former fugitive Radovan Karadzic to the custody of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to face trial on war...

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News US senator indicted on corruption charges
US senator indicted on corruption charges
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 29, 2008 01:49:00 pm

A DC federal grand jury Tuesday indicted US Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) on seven counts of making false statements relating to an alleged corruption scheme and for...

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News Fifth Circuit confirms convictions of border patrol agents
Fifth Circuit confirms convictions of border patrol agents
Steve Czajkowski
July 29, 2008 12:26:00 pm

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has upheld seven out of 12 charges against two US border agents who were found guilty of unlawfully shooting an illegal immigrant...

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News Malaysia opposition leader releases medical report disputing sodomy charges
Malaysia opposition leader releases medical report disputing sodomy charges
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 29, 2008 12:25:00 pm

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim released a medical report Tuesday that he said refuted sodomy allegations made against him by a former aide. According to the report, the...

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Bali bombers filing constitutional challenge to firing squad execution
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 29, 2008 11:39:00 am

A lawyer for three Indonesian men sentenced to death for their role in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people said Monday that he would file a constitutional challenge to their method of execution. Mukhlas,...

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UK court denies extradition appeal of three Tunisians
Deirdre Jurand
July 29, 2008 11:31:00 am

Judges at London's High Court Monday rejected an appeal against the extradition of three Tunisian men arrested on terrorism charges who argued that their removal to Italy could ultimately lead to their torture. The three were arrested late last...

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News UN General Assembly confirms South African as new UN human rights chief
UN General Assembly confirms South African as new UN human rights chief
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 29, 2008 10:54:00 am

The 192-member UN General Assembly Monday unanimously voted to approve South African judge Navanethem Pillay as the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, replacing departing commissioner Louise Arbour . UN Secretary General Ban...

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News China human rights abuses continuing in run-up to Beijing Olympics: Amnesty
China human rights abuses continuing in run-up to Beijing Olympics: Amnesty
Deirdre Jurand
July 29, 2008 10:13:00 am

The human rights situation in China has continued to deteriorate as the start of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games draws closer, according to a report released Tuesday by Amnesty International (AI) . The report,...

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Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, murdered by Henry II's knights

On December 29, 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by knights acting in the name of Henry II.

Becket and Henry had been entangled in a power struggle over, among other things, criminal jurisdiction over clergy. Read a contemporary account of the murder of Thomas Becket.

Texas attains US statehood

On December 29, 1845, Texas became the twenty-eighth state to join the United States of America when US President James K. Polk signed the Ordinance of Annexation. Texas had a complicated path to statehood because it had formerly been part of Mexico and then an independent republic. The US Congress passed the Annexation of the Republic of Texas Joint Resolution on March 1, 1845. Voters in Texas then approved the Ordinance of Annexation in October, before it was approved by the US Congress and signed into law by President Polk on this day in 1845. The US Supreme Court later ruled in Texas v. White that, despite its unique path to statehood, Texas did not have the right to secede from the union.

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