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News DOJ launches research project to probe violent crime rate increase
DOJ launches research project to probe violent crime rate increase
Jaime Jansen
October 16, 2006 01:09:00 pm

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday announced the launch of the Initiative for Safer Communities, responding to growing concern about the increase of violent crime in American cities. In the first increase since 2001,...

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News UK man pleads guilty to conspiracy in US/UK bombings plot
UK man pleads guilty to conspiracy in US/UK bombings plot
Jaime Jansen
October 12, 2006 11:28:00 am

Dhiren Barot, a British man accused of planning a series of bombs on US and British targets, pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiracy to murder for his role in the Gas Limos Project bombing scheme and...

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News UK Foreign Office calls Guantanamo ‘unacceptable’ in human rights report
UK Foreign Office calls Guantanamo ‘unacceptable’ in human rights report
Jaime Jansen
October 12, 2006 10:58:00 am

British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on Thursday called the "continuing detention without a fair trial" at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay "unacceptable in terms of human rights" and "ineffective in...

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News Turkish novelist subject of state slander case wins Nobel Prize
Turkish novelist subject of state slander case wins Nobel Prize
Jaime Jansen
October 12, 2006 10:22:00 am

Turkey's most prominent writer, Orhan Pamuk , won the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday for his work examining the role of Islam in society. Pamuk, a visiting professor at Columbia University, said he...

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News Uganda LRA rebels renew threat of violence unless ICC pulls arrest warrants
Uganda LRA rebels renew threat of violence unless ICC pulls arrest warrants
Jaime Jansen
October 9, 2006 02:10:00 pm

Leaders of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on Monday repeated their call for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to lift international arrest warrants against five top LRA leaders, and threatened to continue their violent...

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Security Council nominates South Korean as new UN chief
Jaime Jansen
October 9, 2006 01:43:00 pm

The UN Security Council Monday nominated Ban Ki-Moon , the current South Korean Foreign Minister, to succeed UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan when Annan's term ends in January. Ban won the Council's nomination after four...

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France to impose smoking ban in all public places
Jaime Jansen
October 9, 2006 01:03:00 pm

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has said that France will impose a smoking ban in public locations in February 2007, and will likely extend a smoking ban in restaurants,...

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Mexico presses Bush to reject border fence bill
Jaime Jansen
October 2, 2006 02:14:00 pm

Mexico urged President Bush on Monday to veto the Secure Fence Act of 2006 authorizing the construction of a 700-mile fence along the US-Mexico border . A spokesman for Mexican President Vicente...

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Advocacy group faces new voter registration fraud allegations
Jaime Jansen
October 2, 2006 12:54:00 pm

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has been hit with new voter fraud allegations stemming from an aggressive voter registration drive focusing on helping poor people overcome obstacles to the ballot. Philadelphia has reported...

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News Former US AG Ashcroft denied prosecutorial immunity in material witness suit
Former US AG Ashcroft denied prosecutorial immunity in material witness suit
Jaime Jansen
September 28, 2006 11:13:00 am

US District Judge Edward Lodge of the District of Idaho on Wednesday ruled that former US Attorney General John Ashcroft does not have absolute immunity from a lawsuit alleging that the government wrongfully arrested plaintiff...

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Reign of Terror begins in French Revolution

On April 6, 1793, the Committee of Public Safety took power as the executive agency of France during the French Revolution, starting the Reign of Terror. During this period, the Committee sought to eliminate "enemies of the Revolution" by summary trials of noblemen, clergy, merchants, and peasants alike. The Reign of Terror ended with the overthrow the Committee's last and most prominent member, Maximilien Robespierre. By this time, 20,000 to 40,000 Frenchmen and women had been executed by guillotine. Learn more about the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.

'Scottsboro boys' put on trial for alleged rape of white women

On April 6, 1931, the nine "Scottsboro boys" were put on trial in Alabama on false charges of raping two white women during a freight train trip from Tennessee. Learn more about the trial of the Scottsboro boys.

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