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International brief ~ UN Security Council considering Cote d'Ivoire sanctions

January 27, 2006 05:07:00 AM

Leading Friday's international brief, the UN Security Council is considering sanctions against both rebel and government elements in Cote d'Ivoire that are accused of purposefully delaying and sabotaging fragile peace negotiations in the nation, which has been...

January 26, 2006 10:59:00 PM

John Gilmore v. Alberto R. Gonzales et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, January 26, 2006 . Read...

January 26, 2006 08:35:00 PM

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned Thursday that Kosovo has not moved quickly enough to implement international standards of human rights, democraticization, ethnic tolerance and law enforcement. The Serbian province, under UN administration...

January 26, 2006 07:37:00 AM

Kyrgyz Prime Minister Felix Kulov has appealed to the Kyrgyzstan Parliament to grant him control of parts of the Interior Ministry that govern the nation's police agencies. Kulov alleges that a recent crime wave, including the...

January 26, 2006 05:22:00 AM

Leading Thursday's international brief, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said that he's sending UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicolas Michel to Lebanon to assist government officials there in identifying the "nature and scope of the international assistance"...

January 25, 2006 03:32:00 PM

In a US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on lobbying reform Wednesday, trade group lobbyists questioned the need for the new ethics reform proposal that would place stricter regulations...

January 25, 2006 05:31:00 AM

Leading Wednesday's international brief, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres has called on the UN Security Council to create a UN peacekeeping force for the Darfur region of Sudan ....

January 23, 2006 03:09:00 PM

The US Supreme Court on Monday refused to reconsider a federal court ruling that the BlackBerry , the hand-held internet and email device from Research in Motion (RIM) , violated existing patent rights. Last August,...

January 23, 2006 09:46:00 AM

The number of targeted assassinations of journalists is on the rise, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said Monday in its annual report, Targeting and Tragedy: Journalists and Media Staff Killed in 2005 [PDF...

January 21, 2006 04:17:00 PM

A European diplomat said Saturday that Russia will not likely support last week's draft resolution that would refer Iran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear program unless there is...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

White supremacists overthrow government in Wilmington, North Carolina

A group of white supremacists overthrew the government of Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898, killing at least dozens of Black people in the process. The city's Republican government resigned after the 500-2,000 strong white mob burned the offices of a Black-owned newspaper and terrorized black neighborhoods. The new state Democratic government passed laws in 1899 disenfranchising Black voters across North Carolina. Learn more about the 1898 Wilmington Coup.

Supreme Court limited free speech in wartime

On November 10, 1919, the US Supreme Court ruled in Abrams v. United States that the federal government could criminalize speech if it was of a type tending to bring about harmful results, in this case, resistance to the United States war effort. In a powerful dissenting opinion, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes countered that even during wartime, free speech could only be curtailed when there was clear and "present danger of immediate evil or an intent to bring it about."

Leonid Brezhnev dies

On November 10, 1982, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died of a heart attack. He had served as leader of the USSR from October 1964 until his death. Following his death, the Soviet Union cycled through three more leaders during the 1980s until Mikhail Gorbachev allowed the country to dissolve in 1991. Read an obituary of Leonid Brezhnev from the New York Times.