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News UPDATE ~ Scrushy juror replaced; deliberations to start over
UPDATE ~ Scrushy juror replaced; deliberations to start over
David Shucosky
June 22, 2005 03:11:00 pm

After meeting with lawyers from both sides earlier today , US District Judge Karon Bowdre ordered a juror replaced in the fraud trial of former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy , citing health reasons that interrupted deliberations....

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News Italian court convicts  former SS for wartime massacre in Tuscany
Italian court convicts former SS for wartime massacre in Tuscany
Tom Henry
June 22, 2005 03:07:00 pm

A panel of Italian judges on Wednesday convicted 10 former Nazi SS soldiers in absentia for their roles in the 1944 massacre of over 500 Tuscan villagers . The 10 men all received life sentences after the three-judge...

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News German court accepts soldier’s anti-Iraq war defense to not following orders
German court accepts soldier’s anti-Iraq war defense to not following orders
Tom Henry
June 22, 2005 03:05:00 pm

Germany's Federal Administrative Court ruled Wednesday that a German army officer who refused to follow orders because he thought they would aid the US-led war in Iraq could not be forced to comply...

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News White House interviewing Supreme Court candidates
White House interviewing Supreme Court candidates
Tom Henry
June 22, 2005 01:46:00 pm

With the likely retirement of US Chief Justice William Rehnquist in the coming weeks, senior White House officials are cutting down their list of candidates and interviewing the final contending federal appeals court judges to replace him. The...

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News US indicts two in connection with Brazil killing of environmentalist American nun
US indicts two in connection with Brazil killing of environmentalist American nun
David Shucosky
June 22, 2005 01:27:00 pm

A grand jury in Washington, DC has indicted two men for the February 12 killing of Dorothy Stang , an American nun who was working in Brazil as an environmentalist. A landowner allegedly...

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News Judge summons lawyers in Scrushy case
Judge summons lawyers in Scrushy case
David Shucosky
June 22, 2005 01:17:00 pm

With the jury still unable to reach a verdict and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy unwilling to cut a deal in his trial for accounting fraud, US District Judge Karon Bowdre summoned...

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News Western diplomats  visit Ethiopian jails holding election protestors
Western diplomats visit Ethiopian jails holding election protestors
Tom Henry
June 22, 2005 01:09:00 pm

Diplomats from various Western nations have been permitted to examine conditions at Ethiopia's largest jail for the hundreds of protestors arrested after the disputed May 15 election erupted into demonstrations and violence . Officials from Ireland,...

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News Sunni negotiators approved, but Iraq constitution talks beset by water shortage
Sunni negotiators approved, but Iraq constitution talks beset by water shortage
Jamie Sterling
June 22, 2005 11:24:00 am

A Sunni spokesman said Wednesday that a list of names submitted for the fifteen full committee seats on the drafting committee for the new Iraqi constitution had been approved by the Shi'ite and Kurd politicians, despite...

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News Japanese lawmaker criticizes WWII war crimes tribunal
Japanese lawmaker criticizes WWII war crimes tribunal
Jamie Sterling
June 22, 2005 10:47:00 am

A member of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party said in a speech Wednesday that the International Military Tribunal for the Far East established after World War II may have unjustly tried and convicted Japanese war...

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News Darfur crimes suspects plead not guilty in Sudan court
Darfur crimes suspects plead not guilty in Sudan court
Jamie Sterling
June 22, 2005 10:25:00 am

The first ten men to be tried in Sudan for atrocities committed in the volatile Darfur region all pleaded not guilty Tuesday. The men, associated with the government-allied political group called...

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France abolishes slavery

On February 4, 1794, the legislature of France abolished slavery throughout the territories of the French Republic. The practice was then reinstituted by Napoleon in 1804, before being banned permanently in 1814 after Bonaparte was exiled to Elba. As of 2001, slavery is defined as a "crime against humanity" by French law.

Civil rights activist Rosa Parks born

On February 4, 1913, late civil rights activist Rosa Parks—who became famous in 1956 for refusing to give up her seat to a white man and go to the back of a Montgomery Alabama bus—was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Learn more about Rosa Parks.

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