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News Report on shooting of Italian agent [US DOD]
Report on shooting of Italian agent [US DOD]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 2, 2005 11:00:00 am

US Army AR15-6 investigative report regarding the March 4 incident at a traffic control point in Baghdad resulting in the death of one Italian and the wounding of two others, released April 30, 2005 [concluding that the death of agent...

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News Navajo Nation president vetoes same-sex marriage ban
Navajo Nation president vetoes same-sex marriage ban
Chris Buell
May 2, 2005 10:47:00 am

The Navajo Nation president Sunday veteod a proposal that would have banned same-sex marriages on the tribal reservation. The measure setting various restrictions on marriage, including a same-sex marriage ban, was unanimously approved last month by the...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Supreme Court agrees to hear Solomon Amendment challenge
BREAKING NEWS ~ Supreme Court agrees to hear Solomon Amendment challenge
Chris Buell
May 2, 2005 10:20:00 am

AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has agreed to hear Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Insitutional Rights, 04-1152, considering whether universities may ban military recruiters from their campuses without having federal funding withdrawn under...

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News Review conference opens for nuclear weapons treaty
Review conference opens for nuclear weapons treaty
Chris Buell
May 2, 2005 09:49:00 am

The 2005 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference opened Monday in New York, with almost 190 nations gathering to review progress under the 1970 treaty . The conference comes as nuclear tensions with North Korea [JURIST news...

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News Guatemala to increase security for threatened judges
Guatemala to increase security for threatened judges
Chris Buell
May 2, 2005 09:27:00 am

Guatemala will create a security unit to offer increase protection for 19 judges and six magistrates who have received death threats, according to a plan approved by the country's supreme court on Friday. The court announced the plan at...

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News Peacekeepers abused Liberian women, UN says
Peacekeepers abused Liberian women, UN says
Chris Buell
May 2, 2005 09:09:00 am

UN peacekeepers sexually abused Liberian women, according to an initial UN investigation announced on Friday. An initial investigation into allegations showed that as many as 20 reports of abuse could be substantiated, with the allegations ranging from peacekeepers having...

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News US releases 80+ prisoners from Afghan facilities
US releases 80+ prisoners from Afghan facilities
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 1, 2005 05:18:00 pm

Some 85 prisoners were released from US detention facilities in Afghanistan Sunday after being brought to the Afghan Supreme Court in Kabul, where they swore allegiance to the government in a short ceremony. The prisoners from the south of...

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News Army probe finds instances of Guantanamo prisoner abuse
Army probe finds instances of Guantanamo prisoner abuse
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 1, 2005 04:05:00 pm

The New York Times reported Sunday that a new military investigation of interrogation tactics used on terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has found several instances of abuse and humiliation of prisoners. The report by Air Force Lt. Gen....

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News Nepal protestors take to streets after king lifts state of emergency
Nepal protestors take to streets after king lifts state of emergency
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 1, 2005 03:24:00 pm

Some ten thousand protestors took to the streets of Kathmandu Sunday in two separate demonstrations just a day after King Gyanendra lifted the state of emergency in the country which he had declared on February 1...

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News US, Italian reports split on responsibility for agent shooting after hostage release
US, Italian reports split on responsibility for agent shooting after hostage release
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 1, 2005 02:47:00 pm

In the wake of a joint statement Friday indicating that the US and Italy had failed to agree on circumstances surrounding the shooting of an Italian agent by US soldiers in Iraq, details of the divergent...

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Treaty with Russia ceded Alaska to the United States

On March 30, 1867, the US and Russia signed a treaty ceding Alaska to the United States for a payment of $7,200,000 in gold.

Review the terms of a Treaty concerning the Cession of the Russian Possessions in North America by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias to the United States of America, the terms of which were included in the Treaty's Proclamation by President Andrew Johnson on June 20, 1867.

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