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News South Korea police raid Google office over data collection
South Korea police raid Google office over data collection
Daniel Richey
August 10, 2010 01:22:25 pm

The South Korean National Police Agency (SKNPA) raided the Google South Korean headquarters in Seoul on Tuesday morning in connection with accusations that the company has been illegally acquiring user data. Representatives from...

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News Scotland lawmakers call for release of Lockerbie bomber medical records
Scotland lawmakers call for release of Lockerbie bomber medical records
Dwyer Arce
August 10, 2010 01:09:24 pm

The opposition Scottish Labour Party called Tuesday for the publication of all medical evidence related to the release of convicted Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi . The demand comes...

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News Jury selection begins in Khadr military trial
Jury selection begins in Khadr military trial
Dwyer Arce
August 10, 2010 12:15:56 pm

The military trial of Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr began Tuesday with jury selection, despite international criticism of the proceedings. Khadr pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and terrorism...

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News Japan PM apologizes for Korea colonization
Japan PM apologizes for Korea colonization
Dwyer Arce
August 10, 2010 10:41:28 am

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Monday apologized to South Korea for Japan's 20th-century colonization of the Korean peninsula. The statement was timed to coincide with the anniversaries of the 1910 annexation of the peninsula and...

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News UN SG calls for greater efforts on indigenous rights
UN SG calls for greater efforts on indigenous rights
Dwyer Arce
August 10, 2010 09:50:22 am

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called on governments to work to improve the human rights conditions of the world's indigenous peoples. The statement, made on the International Day of World's Indigenous People , urged...

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News Guantanamo detainee agrees to plea deal at military tribunal
Guantanamo detainee agrees to plea deal at military tribunal
Dwyer Arce
August 10, 2010 08:51:13 am

Sudanese Guantanamo Bay detainee Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi on Monday reached a plea agreement with the US government setting out the maximum sentence he can receive at his military tribunal...

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News Bangladesh bans corporal punishment in schools following court order
Bangladesh bans corporal punishment in schools following court order
Ann Riley
August 10, 2010 08:39:51 am

The Bangladeshi Ministry of Education on Monday banned the use of corporal punishment in all schools across the country. Following a circular order issued by Education Secretary Ataur Rahman, calling the form of...

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News US military judge rules Khadr confessions admissible at trial
US military judge rules Khadr confessions admissible at trial
Ann Riley
August 10, 2010 07:33:46 am

US military judge Army Colonel Patrick Parrish on Monday ruled that confessions by Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr are admissible evidence in his US military commission trial. Khadr's US military...

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News Thailand court opens trial against ruling party
Thailand court opens trial against ruling party
Dwyer Arce
August 9, 2010 03:10:58 pm

The Constitutional Court of Thailand on Monday conducted the first hearing in the electoral fraud trial of the ruling Democrat Party . The case, brought in June by the Election Commission of...

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News BP, DOJ complete negotiations on $20 billion oil spill victim fund
BP, DOJ complete negotiations on $20 billion oil spill victim fund
Daniel Richey
August 9, 2010 02:49:50 pm

British Petroleum (BP) and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday announced the completion of negotiations over the implementation of a $20 billion fund to aid...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Montgomery started racially-integrated bus service after boycott

On December 21, 1956, buses in Montgomery, Alabama, started racially integrated service following federal court rulings ending on-board segregation. Bus boycott leaders Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy were among the first riders under the new scheme. Learn about the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Stalin born

On December 21, 1879, Joseph Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia. In 1922, he became leader of the USSR until his death in 1953. During his time as Soviet dictator, Stalin industrialized his country, which he then led to become one of the world's two superpowers after WWII. Through his infamous purges, show trials and nationwide famines, Stalin also became responsible for millions of deaths.

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