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News Japan court awards benefits to atomic bomb victims living abroad
Japan court awards benefits to atomic bomb victims living abroad
Kate Heneroty
September 26, 2005 09:33:00 am

Japan's Fukuoka High Court held Monday that a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing living abroad is entitled to the same medical benefits and funeral costs as survivors living in Japan, without...

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News Australian detainee seeks British citizenship to secure release from Gitmo
Australian detainee seeks British citizenship to secure release from Gitmo
Kate Heneroty
September 26, 2005 09:04:00 am

Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks , arrested in Afghanistan following the September 11th attacks and facing imminent trial by military commission, is seeking dual citizenship in the UK with the hope that the British government...

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News Iraqi judge issues arrest warrants for British soldiers freed in Basra jail break
Iraqi judge issues arrest warrants for British soldiers freed in Basra jail break
Kate Heneroty
September 24, 2005 11:51:00 am

An Iraqi lawyer said Saturday that an Iraqi judge has issued warrants for the arrest of 2 British soldiers freed in a UK raid on a Basra jail Monday. The soldiers, reported to be undercover SAS [Wikipedia...

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News US continues holdout against nuclear test ban treaty
US continues holdout against nuclear test ban treaty
Kate Heneroty
September 24, 2005 11:17:00 am

The US boycotted a 3-day UN conference that ended Friday designed to encourage the 11 nuclear countries who have not signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to do so. Thirty-three...

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News Rights group claims 82nd Airborne systematically abused Iraqi prisoners
Rights group claims 82nd Airborne systematically abused Iraqi prisoners
Kate Heneroty
September 24, 2005 10:43:00 am

Human Rights Watch claimed in a report issued Friday that members of the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division systematically tortured Iraqi prisoners in 2003 and 2004 at a military base near Fallujah. A captain...

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News England defense blames obedience dysfunction for Abu Ghraib conduct
England defense blames obedience dysfunction for Abu Ghraib conduct
Kate Heneroty
September 24, 2005 10:08:00 am

Defense psychologists testified in court-martial proceedings Friday that learning disabilities and her "compliant personality" made Pfc. Lynndie England so blindly obedient to her boyfriend and now-incarcerated superior officer Charles Graner [Wikipedia profile; JURIST news...

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News US file-sharing companies seek agreement with recording industry
US file-sharing companies seek agreement with recording industry
Kate Heneroty
September 20, 2005 11:13:00 am

Discussions are ongoing between at least five online music file-sharing companies and recording industry executives in an attempt to convert the networks, which allow users to freely swap music over the internet, to paid services. Several companies have initiated...

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News US mining company, executive facing Indonesian trial for water pollution
US mining company, executive facing Indonesian trial for water pollution
Kate Heneroty
September 20, 2005 10:50:00 am

An Indonesian court Tuesday rejected a request to drop a pollution case against US gold mining company Newmont Mining and the company's local subsidiary president director Richard Ness. Ness, from Ada, MN, will stand...

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News UN prosecutor accuses Vatican of hiding Yugoslav war criminal
UN prosecutor accuses Vatican of hiding Yugoslav war criminal
Kate Heneroty
September 20, 2005 10:22:00 am

Carla del Ponte, the United Nations' chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia , said Monday that the Roman Catholic Church and Vatican officials are concealing the location of...

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News Saddam lawyer decries lack of trial notice, cooperation
Saddam lawyer decries lack of trial notice, cooperation
Kate Heneroty
September 20, 2005 09:54:00 am

A lawyer for Saddam Hussein said Tuesday that his defense team still has not been informed by Iraqi authorities of the trial date and charges pressed against the ousted Iraqi leader and reiterated doubts about the...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

First impeachment trial began in US Senate

On December 17, 1798, the US Senate began its first impeachment trial. Senator William Blount of Tennessee, a land speculator, was accused of plotting with England to wrest control of Florida from Spain. The Senate ultimately dismissed the charges for lack of jurisdiction—and, perhaps incidentally, lack of Blount, who had gone to Tennessee and had refused to return to the Senate for trial. Read more on the trial of William Blount.

Simon Bolivar dies

On December 17, 1830, South American revolutionary Simon Bolivar died in Colombia. During his lifetime, Bolivar led successful revolutions against Spanish colonial rule throughout South America. His efforts led to the independence of the modern-day nations of Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador and Bolivia, a nation named in his honor.

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