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News SEC chairman names new director of enforcement
SEC chairman names new director of enforcement
Andrew Gilmore
February 20, 2009 04:25:00 pm

US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Mary Schapiro on Thursday named Robert Khuzami as the new director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement. Khuzmani replaces former director of enforcement Linda Thomsen,...

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News UK Guantanamo detainee to be returned soon: Foreign Office
UK Guantanamo detainee to be returned soon: Foreign Office
Devin Montgomery
February 20, 2009 03:50:00 pm

The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said Friday that the US has agreed to return  UK resident and Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed to the country as...

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News Fifth Circuit reverses Katrina false claims dismissal
Fifth Circuit reverses Katrina false claims dismissal
Andrew Morgan
February 20, 2009 12:28:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a lower court ruling that dismissed a suit resulting from Hurricane Katrina brought on behalf of the US against eight...

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News Rights group accuses Sri Lanka and Tamil Tigers of human right violations
Rights group accuses Sri Lanka and Tamil Tigers of human right violations
Tere Miller-Sporrer
February 20, 2009 12:26:00 pm

Both the Sri Lankan government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have committed human rights violations by attacking civilians in the Vanni region, according to a...

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News UK laws post-1997 ‘compromised’ traditional liberties: rights group
UK laws post-1997 ‘compromised’ traditional liberties: rights group
Kayleigh Shebs
February 20, 2009 12:14:00 pm

Under the leadership of successive Labour Party governments the UK Parliament has systematically infringed on freedoms and rights of individual British citizens over the past decade, according to a report released Thursday by the Convention...

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News Federal judge dismisses new charges against GOP staffer acquitted of phone jamming
Federal judge dismisses new charges against GOP staffer acquitted of phone jamming
Devin Montgomery
February 20, 2009 12:13:00 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maine on Wednesday dismissed charges of making false statements against former Republican National Committee regional director James Tobin [SourceWatch...

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News Russia journalist murder suspects acquitted
Russia journalist murder suspects acquitted
Christian Ehret
February 20, 2009 09:03:00 am

The Moscow Military District Court on Friday acquitted three men suspected of being involved in the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya . The three men, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov and Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, were released  after a...

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News Acquitted Yugoslavia ex-military officer sues Serbia over imprisonment
Acquitted Yugoslavia ex-military officer sues Serbia over imprisonment
Christian Ehret
February 20, 2009 08:02:00 am

Former Yugoslav National Army officer Miroslav Radic on Wednesday sued Serbia for the four years and six months he was detained during his trial by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Radic...

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News Europe rights court orders UK to compensate illegally detained Muslim cleric
Europe rights court orders UK to compensate illegally detained Muslim cleric
Tarah Park
February 19, 2009 12:10:00 pm

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ordered the UK to pay £2,500 in damages to Islamic cleric Abu Qataba after determining that he was imprisoned by...

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News Iraq court postpones trial of shoe-throwing journalist
Iraq court postpones trial of shoe-throwing journalist
Christian Ehret
February 19, 2009 11:57:00 am

Judge Abdul-Amir al-Rubaie of the Central Criminal Court of Iraq (CCCI) on Thursday postponed the trial of Muntadar al-Zaidi , the Iraqi journalist accused of throwing his shoes at former US president...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US House voted to impeach President Clinton

On December 19, 1998, a divided US House of Representatives voted to impeach President Bill Clinton on charges of lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice in the Monica Lewinsky affair.

Read the Articles of Impeachment.

UK signs Hong Kong over to China

On December 19, 1984, the United Kingdom and China signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which ceded control of Hong Kong to the government of mainland China in 1997. The treaty also ensured that Hong Kong would retain its capitalist and democratic systems for at least 50 years after the transfer of power.

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