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News Ex-UN oil-for-food investigator turns subpoenaed documents over to Congress
Ex-UN oil-for-food investigator turns subpoenaed documents over to Congress
Kate Heneroty
May 6, 2005 11:43:00 am

Robert Parton, who resigned last month as senior investigative counsel for the Independent Inquiry Committee into the defunct UN Oil-for-Food Program , has handed over potentially incriminating documents to a US congressional committee. The...

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News Appeals court strikes down FCC broadcast flag rules
Appeals court strikes down FCC broadcast flag rules
Jamie Sterling
May 6, 2005 11:33:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled Friday that FCC regulations prohibiting the manufacture of video and computer hardware without broadcast flag anti-piracy technology are invalid. The court said:The broadcast...

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News Madrid train bombing charge for 9/11 suspect
Madrid train bombing charge for 9/11 suspect
Kate Heneroty
May 6, 2005 11:04:00 am

A Spanish judge has charged 11 additional suspects with participating in the Madrid commuter train bombings that in March 2004 killed 191 and injured 1,900, bringing the total charged up to 101 people. Included in Thursday's indictment is Driss...

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News Poll: 3 of 4 Iraqis want Islam to be primary source for Iraq law
Poll: 3 of 4 Iraqis want Islam to be primary source for Iraq law
Jamie Sterling
May 6, 2005 10:58:00 am

A poll of 2700 Iraqis released Friday reports that three out of four citizens believe that Islam should be a primary source of Iraqi law and legislation, with only two percent of respondents believing that religion...

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News British election officials demand postal vote safeguards after third Labour victory
British election officials demand postal vote safeguards after third Labour victory
Kate Heneroty
May 6, 2005 10:39:00 am

Despite a low 61% turnout and an undisputed third-term victory for Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labour Party in Thursday's UK election, officials from the UK Electoral Commission [official...

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News Bush, Nigerian president discuss bringing Taylor to trial
Bush, Nigerian president discuss bringing Taylor to trial
Jamie Sterling
May 6, 2005 10:28:00 am

President Bush and visiting Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo discussed how indicted ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor might be brought to trial during a meeting Thursday at the White House. Taylor, now in exile in Nigeria, has been charged...

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News Nepalese rights activists oppose charging of former Prime Minister
Nepalese rights activists oppose charging of former Prime Minister
Jamie Sterling
May 6, 2005 09:58:00 am

Nepalese political leaders and rights activists Friday condemned the bringing of corruption charges against former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, with the head of Nepal's Informal Sector Service Center calling the royal anti-graft commission a...

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News UN troubled by increase in sexual abuse allegations against peacekeepers
UN troubled by increase in sexual abuse allegations against peacekeepers
Jamie Sterling
May 6, 2005 09:32:00 am

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a report released Thursday that an increase in allegations of sexual abuse against UN peacekeepers and related staff is "deeply troubling," but may be related to "the newly...

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News Abu Ghraib general demoted for dereliction of duty, shoplifting
Abu Ghraib general demoted for dereliction of duty, shoplifting
Jamie Sterling
May 6, 2005 09:16:00 am

The US Army has announced that President Bush Thursday approved the demotion of Brigadier General Janis Karpinski to colonel, effectively ending her military career. Karpinski, the former commanding officer at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, had...

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News Till family members oppose FBI exhumation
Till family members oppose FBI exhumation
Jamie Sterling
May 6, 2005 08:56:00 am

Members of the family of Emmett Till , a 14-year-old black youngster killed after whistling at a white woman in 1955, are vehemently opposing the FBI's plan to exhume the boy's body . Two suspects in the...

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French chemist Antoine Lavoisier guillotined

French revolutionaries guillotined chemist Antoine Lavoisier on May 8, 1794 over his investment in a private tax collecting company purchased 26 years prior. Learn more about the life of Antoine Lavoisier.

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