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News FBI documents describe military impersonation of agents, allege Presidential OK for abusive interrogations
FBI documents describe military impersonation of agents, allege Presidential OK for abusive interrogations
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
December 21, 2004 09:41:00 am

FBI records released late Monday by the ACLU pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request include complaints in 2004 about military impersonation of FBI agents while using "torture technqiques" against prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, and allege that there...

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News Ukrainian presidential debate transcript [UTR]
Ukrainian presidential debate transcript [UTR]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
December 21, 2004 09:32:00 am

Transcript of Ukrainian presidential debate between Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, televised on UTR , December 20, 2004. Read the transcript here in English and Ukrainian, provided by the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine. Reported...

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News Ruling on terrorist financing law [9th Circuit]
Ruling on terrorist financing law [9th Circuit]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
December 20, 2004 09:55:00 pm

US v. Afshari et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, December 20, 2004 [overturning a lower federal court ruling finding a 1996 terrorist financing law unconstitutional and reinstating indictments against seven people accused of providing "material...

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News UPDATE ~ US says Yukos sale erodes confidence in Russian legal system
UPDATE ~ US says Yukos sale erodes confidence in Russian legal system
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
December 20, 2004 03:51:00 pm

Updating a story reported earlier today in JURIST's Paper Chase, a US State Department spokesman said Monday that the weekend auction sale of Russian oil giant Yukos' main production arm to satisfy back taxes in the face of a...

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News Second Gitmo detainee to be released following status review hearing
Second Gitmo detainee to be released following status review hearing
Chris Buell
December 20, 2004 02:48:00 pm

The Department of Defense announced Monday that according to a DOD panel a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay was wrongly classified as an enemy combatant and would be released soon. Navy Secretary Gordon England refused to identify the man...

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News Hungary becomes second country to ratify new EU constitution
Hungary becomes second country to ratify new EU constitution
Chris Buell
December 20, 2004 02:25:00 pm

Hungary became the second nation to ratify the European Constitution with a parliamentary vote Monday, only seven months after joining the EU. After Hungary's approval, 23 EU member states have yet to ratify the constitution, with a negative vote...

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News Saddam’s defense lawyers preparing challenge in US courts, leaked papers show
Saddam’s defense lawyers preparing challenge in US courts, leaked papers show
Chris Buell
December 20, 2004 02:11:00 pm

Defense lawyers for Saddam Hussein are preparing legal challenges to his upcoming war crimes trial to be filed in US courts, according to leaked memos. The Sunday Times reported that a brief titled "The Iraqi Special Tribunal as Victors’...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ WA Supreme Court to hear appeal over disputed ballots, Democrats say
BREAKING NEWS ~ WA Supreme Court to hear appeal over disputed ballots, Democrats say
Chris Buell
December 20, 2004 01:17:00 pm

KGW-TV in Portland is reporting that WA State Democrats have said the WA Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal over 700 disputed King County in a hand recount for the gubernatorial race. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that...

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News US settles lawsuit with Hungarian Holocaust survivors over lost property
US settles lawsuit with Hungarian Holocaust survivors over lost property
Chris Buell
December 20, 2004 01:06:00 pm

The US government has agreed to settle a class action brought by Hungarian Holocaust survivors over an estimated $200 million in jewelry, gold and other property that was seized by the US at the end of World War II...

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News Ukraine opposition leader accuses rival of trying to "steal election" in live TV debate
Ukraine opposition leader accuses rival of trying to "steal election" in live TV debate
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
December 20, 2004 12:30:00 pm

Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko opened a 2-hour live TV debate Monday with rival and prime minister Viktor Yanukovych by accusing him of trying to steal the November 21 Ukrainian presidential election, which led to allegations of massive fraud...

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South Africa born

On May 31, 1910, the Union of South Africa was created. Exactly fifty-one years later in 1961, the Republic of South Africa was born. Learn more about the history of South Africa from the country's government.

Tulsa race riot began

On May 31, 1921, the Tulsa race riot was touched off after a black elevator operator was alleged to have attacked a white woman in an elevator in downtown Tulsa. Armed whites attacked, burned and looted the local black business community of Greenwood in violence that killed more than 300 people and destroyed more than 1200 homes. Learn more about the Tulsa race riot. A special commission set up by the Oklahoma legislature decades afterward submitted this report [PDF] on the riot in 2001.

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