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News IAEA members vote to toughen treaty standards for protection of nuke materials
IAEA members vote to toughen treaty standards for protection of nuke materials
David Shucosky
July 8, 2005 09:37:00 am

Eighty-nine member nations of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) voted Friday to adopt recommended changes to toughen standards of the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material at a special...

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News German youth gets 21-month suspended sentence for Sasser computer worm
German youth gets 21-month suspended sentence for Sasser computer worm
David Shucosky
July 8, 2005 09:19:00 am

Sven Jaschan, a 19-year-old German, was given a 21-month suspended sentence Friday after being convicted by a German court of computer sabotage and illegally altering data for authoring the Sasser computer worm . Jaschan escaped jail time because...

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News Federal judge rejects injunction against Florida parental consent law
Federal judge rejects injunction against Florida parental consent law
Krista-Ann Staley
July 8, 2005 09:02:00 am

US District Judge William Stafford rejected an injunction against Florida's new parental consent abortion law Thursday. According to the judge, opponents of the state's Parental Notice of Abortion Act , which took effect June 30, failed to show they...

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News Lynndie England to plead not guilty in Abu Ghraib trial
Lynndie England to plead not guilty in Abu Ghraib trial
Krista-Ann Staley
July 8, 2005 08:43:00 am

Attorneys for US Army Pfc. Lynndie England announced Thursday she will plead not guilty in her upcoming court-martial. The trial will reopen later this summer with the Army maintaining most of the charges from...

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News Police say death toll in London bombings tops 50; investigation continues
Police say death toll in London bombings tops 50; investigation continues
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
July 8, 2005 08:42:00 am

London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said Friday that the confirmed death toll from the Thursday bomb attacks in the British capital had risen to "at least 50" and would go up as more...

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News Florida closes Schiavo case after finding no criminal wrongdoing
Florida closes Schiavo case after finding no criminal wrongdoing
Krista-Ann Staley
July 8, 2005 08:06:00 am

Florida State Attorney Bernie McCabe announced Thursday that he had found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing with respect to the collapse of Terri Schiavo 15 years ago. Following Schiavo's autopsy last month, Govenor Jeb...

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News NATO arrests son of Bosnian war crimes fugitive
NATO arrests son of Bosnian war crimes fugitive
Holly Manges Jones
July 7, 2005 08:20:00 pm

A spokesman for NATO said Thursday that multinational stabilization forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina had arrested Aleksandar Karadzic, son of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic who is sought for genocide charges in the July 1995 massacre...

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News Sarbanes-Oxley co-author calls some aspects of legislation "excessive"
Sarbanes-Oxley co-author calls some aspects of legislation "excessive"
Holly Manges Jones
July 7, 2005 07:11:00 pm

Speaking at the annual conference of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) in London Thursday, US Congressman Michael Oxley (R-OH) said that the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation was "rushed" and includes "excessive" corporate reforms....

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News UN says Darfur bandits threaten aid to warring region
UN says Darfur bandits threaten aid to warring region
Holly Manges Jones
July 7, 2005 07:09:00 pm

UN Special Representative for Sudan Jan Pronk said Thursday that bandits in the Darfur region of Sudan have been stealing food and terrorizing and killing workers bringing supplies into the region. Pronk also said a group of bandits...

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News Romanian PM, cabinet to resign after court blocks EU justice reforms
Romanian PM, cabinet to resign after court blocks EU justice reforms
Holly Manges Jones
July 7, 2005 06:38:00 pm

Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu said Thursday that he and his Cabinet will resign after the country's Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that rejected reforms to the justice system...

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On January 24, 1993, retired US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who had spent much of his life fighting and supporting civil rights causes, died in Bethesda, Maryland. Learn more about the life and legal career of Thurgood Marshall.

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On January 24, 1996, Jozef Oleksy, the Prime Minister of Poland, resigned after he was accused of spying for the Soviet Union. Former KGB officer Andrzej Milczanowski alleged that Oleksy had passed him classified information while serving as the Polish Minister of Internal Affairs. A military investigation was closed in April of 1996 for lack of evidence.

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