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Technological and Administrative Doubt: Kenya's 2013 Elections in Perspective

March 17, 2013 10:00:00 AM

George Kegoro, International Commission of Jurists

July 26, 2012 10:40:43 AM

A Kenyan court on Wednesday lifted the ban on a group that campaigns for the independence of a coastal strip surrounding the city of Mombasa. The three judges for the country's High Court held that...

March 3, 2012 10:38:14 AM

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday affirmed that the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is liable to a number of Louisiana property owners for its inadequate work...

October 15, 2011 01:19:44 PM

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday rejected a request by Judicial Watch and the Media Research Center (MRC) for documents pertaining to...

July 21, 2005 02:41:00 PM

An official for the UN Mission in Democratic Republic of the Congo accused neighboring Uganda on Thursday of harboring Congolese guerrilla fighters and violating a UN Security Council resolution . Uganda denied allegations that Congolese...

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WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

Library of Congress created

On April 24, 1800, U.S. President John Adams approved $5,000 to fund the establishment of the U.S. Library of Congress.

Learn more about the history of the U.S. Library of Congress.