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News Three UK bankers to be extradited to US for Enron scandal involvement
Three UK bankers to be extradited to US for Enron scandal involvement
Jamie Sterling
May 24, 2005 04:06:00 pm

British Home Secretary Charles Clarke announced Tuesday that three British men, all Greenwich Natwest bankers, will be extradited to the US to face trial for their involvment in the Enron scandal. Clarke is upholding a...

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News Rights group accuses US of allowing torture of detained citizens in Pakistan
Rights group accuses US of allowing torture of detained citizens in Pakistan
Jamie Sterling
May 24, 2005 03:53:00 pm

Human Rights Watch accused the US Tuesday of allowing two US citizens of Pakistani descent to be tortured and abused while being held in Pakistan as suspected al Qaeda members. Brothers Kashan and Zain...

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News Khodorkovsky verdict-reading continues into seventh day
Khodorkovsky verdict-reading continues into seventh day
Jamie Sterling
May 24, 2005 03:25:00 pm

Three women Russian judges are nearly halfway through Mikhail Khodorkovsky's verdict document Tuesday after seven days of reading. The verdict-reading has presented evidence that will most likely result in a conviction for Khodorkovsky, the former...

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News Jailed Saddam aide released due to terminal illness
Jailed Saddam aide released due to terminal illness
Jamie Sterling
May 22, 2005 04:03:00 pm

One of Saddam Hussein's top aides, Ghazi Hammud al-Obeidi, was released from custody by Iraqi authorities Sunday for health reasons. Al-Obeidi, who has a terminal form of stomach cancer, was included on the US list of the top 55...

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News Egyptian militant arrested in pre-election crackdown
Egyptian militant arrested in pre-election crackdown
Jamie Sterling
May 22, 2005 03:39:00 pm

Mahmoud Ezzat, secretary-general of outlawed Egyptian opposition group Muslim Brotherhood , was arrested by Egyptian authorities early Sunday. Egyptian police say that Ezzat, the fourth ranking member of the Brotherhood, is the highest profile member...

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News French, Germany, Polish leaders push for French "yes" vote on EU constitution
French, Germany, Polish leaders push for French "yes" vote on EU constitution
Jamie Sterling
May 19, 2005 04:18:00 pm

The leaders of French, Germany, and Poland banded together Thursday in defense of the EU Constitution just ten days before the French vote on the document. French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Gerard Schroeder, and Polish President Aleksander...

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News Hedge-fund operators must pay settlement for illegal stock trading
Hedge-fund operators must pay settlement for illegal stock trading
Jamie Sterling
May 19, 2005 03:09:00 pm

Three hedge-fund managers must pay $2.4M to settle charges that the companies used illegal stock trading tactics to profit off 22 other companies. Galleon Management LP, Oaktree Capital Management LLC and DB Investment Managers Inc. were alleged by the...

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News Suspect faces 61 new charges for 1998 Omagh bombing
Suspect faces 61 new charges for 1998 Omagh bombing
Jamie Sterling
May 19, 2005 02:57:00 pm

Real IRA member Sean Gerard Hoey faces 61 new charges connected to the 1998 Omagh bombing which killed 29 people and injured over 300. Hoey was already faced murder charges for his involvement...

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News Cuban anti-Castro militant charged for entering US illegally
Cuban anti-Castro militant charged for entering US illegally
Jamie Sterling
May 19, 2005 02:34:00 pm

Anti-Castro Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles was been charged by US immigration officials Thursday with illegally entering the country. Carriles, wanted in Venezuela and Cuba for his alleged connection to a 1976 bombing of a Cuban...

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News Ohio high court declines to punish lawyers for filing claim against 2004 election
Ohio high court declines to punish lawyers for filing claim against 2004 election
Jamie Sterling
May 19, 2005 02:04:00 pm

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the four lawyers who filed a claim citing widespread fraud in the 2004 presidential election should not be punished. Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro had attempted to file...

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Georgia became first US state to ban lynching

On December 20, 1893, Georgia became the first state in the Union to pass a law against lynching, making the act punishable by four years in prison. The statute was not particularly effective—read the text of the 1899 pamphlet Lynch Law in Georgia by anti-lynching activist Ida Wells-Barnett.

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On December 20, 1988, the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances was signed in Vienna, Austria. The treaty provides mechanisms for international coordination in preventing the manufacture and distribution of drugs worldwide. Over 170 countries have signed the treaty to date.

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