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Airport security searches ruling [9th Circuit]

June 8, 2005 09:26:00 PM

United States v. Marquez, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, June 7, 2005 . Excerpt:The random, additional screening procedure in this case...

June 8, 2005 12:19:00 PM

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has upheld the drug conviction of a passenger found with cocaine during an airport security check. Sergio Ramon Marquez was randomly selected from a line...

May 31, 2005 01:17:00 PM

Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein could face trial for war crimes within two months according to comments made Tuesday by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in a CNN interview. Talabani said that the Iraqi people...

May 20, 2005 04:31:00 PM

Leading Friday's international brief, two recently released polls indicate that popular sentiment is heavily against the proposed EU constitution in the Netherlands . Polls by RTL Television and Centerdata both put the likely "no" vote on...

May 10, 2005 02:32:00 PM

Kenyan prosecutors on Tuesday dropped charges against three men for plotting the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi that killed 224 people. The three, Salmin Mohammed Khamis, Mohammed Kubwa Seif and Said Saggar Ahmed,...

April 25, 2005 08:17:00 PM

A US investigation into the accidental shooting death of an Italian agent in Iraq by American soldiers has cleared the troops of the wrongdoing, an Army official said Monday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official also said that...

April 21, 2005 01:34:00 PM

Saajid Badat , the British man who has admitted to conspiring with "shoebomber" Richard Reid to blow up an aircraft, will be sentenced on Friday after entering a guilty plea to a conspiracy charge in February....

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Air India bombing ruling [BC SC]

March 16, 2005 11:37:00 PM

Her Majesty the Queen v. Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, British Columbia Supreme Court, Justice Ian Bruce Josephson, March 16, 2005 [finding the defendants not guilty in connection with the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 people...

March 16, 2005 01:53:00 PM

CBC News is reporting that Ripudaman Singh Malik has been found not guilty on all charges stemming from the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 people and resulted in the longest and...

March 11, 2005 03:19:00 PM

Polish authorities have arrested five officers, including a colonel and two majors, for allegedly accepting bribes from both US and Iraqi companies while serving in Iraq. Officials from the Polish Defense Ministry claimed that two...

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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty extended indefinitely

On May 11, 1995, over 170 signatory nations agreed to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) indefinitely. The NPT is an agreement signed by 189 countries to control the spread of nuclear weapons and nuclear technology based on the principles of disarmament, non-proliferation, and the use of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. The treaty was opened for signature in 1968 with a provision for review conferences every five years. During the 1995 review conference in New York City, member countries decided to keep the treaty open indefinitely. Learn more about the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty from the United Nations.

Massachusetts repealed law banning Christmas

On May 11, 1682, the Massachusetts General Court repealed two laws that had banned the celebration of Christmas and had authorized capital punishment for expelled Quakers returning to the colony. Learn more about the state's ban on Christmas.