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News Algeria asks France to apologize for colonialist crimes
Algeria asks France to apologize for colonialist crimes
Jaime Jansen
December 28, 2005 03:04:00 pm

Algeria Wednesday asked the government of France to apologize for crimes committed during France’s colonization of Algeria, including France’s part in the massacres of 45,000 Algerians who demanded independence at the end of...

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News Federal judge urges state, local officials to expedite New Orleans mayor elections
Federal judge urges state, local officials to expedite New Orleans mayor elections
Jaime Jansen
December 27, 2005 04:35:00 pm

US District Judge Ivan Lemelle Tuesday urged federal and state officials to work together and quickly set a date for the postponed New Orleans mayoral primary elections at a hearing of...

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News Specter slams Saddam trial process in tribunal chamber
Specter slams Saddam trial process in tribunal chamber
Jaime Jansen
December 27, 2005 04:12:00 pm

On a brief visit to Iraq Tuesday US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter met with the chief judge overseeing the Saddam Hussein trial , telling reporters gathered in the trial chamber before the meeting...

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News US  doubts government control of Iraqi prisons
US doubts government control of Iraqi prisons
Jaime Jansen
December 27, 2005 03:47:00 pm

The US State Department said Tuesday that Iraqi prisons are only “nominally” under control of the elected government in Baghdad, acknowledging that they are in practice run by the Shiite-led Interior Ministry , which has not yet...

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News Mehlis ‘convinced’ Syrian authorities responsible for Hariri murder
Mehlis ‘convinced’ Syrian authorities responsible for Hariri murder
Jaime Jansen
December 17, 2005 04:35:00 pm

German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, the outgoing head of a UN committee investigating the February 14 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , said Saturday that he is convinced Syrian authorities are responsible for Hariri's death....

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Anti-bribery panel urges deeper national oil-for-food investigations
Jaime Jansen
December 17, 2005 03:24:00 pm

An anti-bribery panel for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) urged governments on Friday to dig deeper into evidence of kickbacks and corruption reported by an independent UN commission investigating the UN's now-defunct Iraq oil-for-food...

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News UK ran secret interrogation prison after WWII: report
UK ran secret interrogation prison after WWII: report
Jaime Jansen
December 17, 2005 03:21:00 pm

Britain ran a secret prison at Bad Nenndorf in northwest Germany that tortured and starved to death inmates for two years after the end of World War II, according to a Saturday report from the Guardian. Inmates included Nazi...

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News Iraq lifts security measures, praised for election
Iraq lifts security measures, praised for election
Jaime Jansen
December 17, 2005 03:00:00 pm

Iraqi authorities began to ease tight election security measures Saturday by lifting the ban on traffic and opening all borders except for the border with Syria, which will reopen in a few days. Thursday's election ...

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News Security Council approves Hariri murder probe extension
Security Council approves Hariri murder probe extension
Jaime Jansen
December 15, 2005 05:45:00 pm

The UN Security Council late Thursday unanimously approved a six-month extension of the probe into the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri just before the mandate of the investigatory commission currently...

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EU parliament to launch CIA prisons probe
Jaime Jansen
December 15, 2005 04:33:00 pm

The European Parliament agreed Thursday to open an investigation into allegations that the CIA illegally operated secret jails in Romania and Poland and covertly flew detainees through Italy, Germany and Poland. Lawmakers approved the...

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28 countries unite against Axis Powers

On January 2, 1942, twenty-eight countries formally agreed not to make peace with the Axis Powers separately. At the time, all twenty-eight were fighting against the Axis as Allies in World War II. The agreement was part of the Declaration by the United Nations, signed the previous day. In December of 1941, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to this group of allies as the "United Nations."

US government agents arrested thousands in Palmer raids

On January 2, 1920, over 500 government agents acting on the direction of US Attorney General Mitchell Palmer carried out a massive counter-terror operation in 33 US cities, arresting between six and ten thousand aliens suspected of Communism, radicalism and anarchism. The "Palmer Raids" and the detentions and deportation proceedings that followed them were denounced by a number of prominent lawyers and judges who later established the American Civil Liberties Union. Read an excerpt from Attorney General Palmer's 1920 article, The Case Against the 'Reds' and learn more about the Palmer Raids and the Red Scare of 1919-20.

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