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News Russia justice system  wrongly charging thousands: chief prosecutor
Russia justice system wrongly charging thousands: chief prosecutor
Andrew Gilmore
May 27, 2008 03:33:00 pm

Russian authorities are wrongly indicting thousands of citizens every year, Russian Prosecutor-General Yury Chaika said Tuesday at a Moscow meeting held to discuss compensation for those falsely charged. Chaika said that in...

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News Zimbabwe refuses to extradite ex-Ethiopia leader Mengistu to face death penalty
Zimbabwe refuses to extradite ex-Ethiopia leader Mengistu to face death penalty
Andrew Gilmore
May 27, 2008 02:28:00 pm

Zimbabwe will not return former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam to Ethiopia to face a death sentence, a Zimbabwean Information Ministry official said Tuesday. The Ethiopian Supreme Court sentenced Mengistu to death in absentia...

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News Egypt extends emergency laws despite pledges to lift
Egypt extends emergency laws despite pledges to lift
Andrew Gilmore
May 26, 2008 12:02:00 pm

Egyptian parliamentarians voted 305-103 Monday to extend the country's emergency laws for two more years at the behest of the government. The laws, which were first implemented after the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, permit...

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News Nepal bans protests around royal enclaves ahead of monarchy abolition
Nepal bans protests around royal enclaves ahead of monarchy abolition
Andrew Gilmore
May 26, 2008 11:18:00 am

Security officials in Nepal banned protests and rallies near the royal palace and the residence of King Gyanendra on Monday, in anticipation of Wednesday's expected abolition of the Nepalese monarchy. Nepal's interim parliament...

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News Ethiopia high court sentences former dictator Mengistu to death in absentia
Ethiopia high court sentences former dictator Mengistu to death in absentia
Andrew Gilmore
May 26, 2008 10:45:00 am

Mengistu Haile Mariam , the former Marxist president of Ethiopia , was sentenced to death Monday after the Ethiopian Supreme Court allowed Ethiopian prosecutors' appeal of his January 2007 life sentence ...

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ICC investigating new Uganda attacks by Lord’s Resistance Army
Andrew Gilmore
May 25, 2008 03:13:00 pm

Luis Moreno-Ocampo chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) , told Reuters Sunday that the ICC was investigating possible new war crimes committed by the Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army...

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News OPEC antitrust bill ‘projection of US economic problems’: Iran oil official
OPEC antitrust bill ‘projection of US economic problems’: Iran oil official
Andrew Gilmore
May 25, 2008 02:27:00 pm

National Iranian Oil Co. Director of International Affairs Hojatollah Ghanimi Fard derided US bill HR 6074 on Saturday, calling it "inexpert" and "a projection of US economic problems" in an interview with Shana...

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Former Congo rebel leader arrested in Belgium on ICC warrant
Andrew Gilmore
May 25, 2008 02:00:00 pm

Jean-Pierre Bemba , a former rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo , was arrested Saturday by Belgian authorities at his home outside of Brussels, after the International Criminal...

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DOD to verify number of juvenile enemy combatants detained
Andrew Gilmore
May 23, 2008 11:57:00 am

The US will re-check its detention records to verify the accuracy of a report filed last week by US officials with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child concerning the number...

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German upper house passes EU Treaty of Lisbon
Andrew Gilmore
May 23, 2008 11:16:00 am

The German Bundesrat , the upper house of the German parliament, voted Friday to approve the EU reform treaty, known formally as the Treaty of Lisbon . All but one of the sixteen states...

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Eighteenth Amendment came into effect

On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution came into effect as scheduled one year after ratification, marking the beginning of Prohibition. Learn more about Temperance and Prohibition from Professor K. Austin Kerr of the Ohio State University Department of History.

English Parliament bans Roman Catholicism

On January 16, 1581, the English Parliament banned Roman Catholicism throughout the country during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. From that time on, Catholicism declined in England until the Catholic Emancipation of the late 18th century.

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