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News Iran Interior Ministry flags fraud danger in upcoming presidential run-off
Iran Interior Ministry flags fraud danger in upcoming presidential run-off
Krista-Ann Staley
June 21, 2005 11:56:00 am

Iran's Interior Ministry Tuesday warned of the danger of fraud in Friday's scheduled run-off presidential vote, with a spokesman referring darkly to "some people who are ready to do anything to stay in power." The...

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Immigration judge rules accused Nazi can be deported
David Shucosky
June 21, 2005 11:54:00 am

A federal immigration judge ruled on Monday that John Demjanjuk , who lost his US citizenship for serving as a guard at a concentration camp, can be deported. The case dates back to 1977 [Cleveland Plain...

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News Luxembourg to go on with EU constitution referendum as PM puts job on line
Luxembourg to go on with EU constitution referendum as PM puts job on line
David Shucosky
June 21, 2005 11:25:00 am

Luxembourg leaders say they will stick to their original plan for a July 10 referendum on the embattled European Union constitution . Following popular rejection of the charter in France and the Netherlands, seven other European countries...

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UK considers abandoning juries for complex fraud trials
David Shucosky
June 21, 2005 11:08:00 am

British Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith Tuesday announced a government plan to abolish jury trials in complicated fraud cases. The move follows the collapse of a fraud trial earlier this year, partly because of jury...

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TSA collected air passenger personal data despite Congressional ban
Krista-Ann Staley
June 21, 2005 10:50:00 am

According to documents obtained by the Associated Press Monday, the Transportation Security Administration collected private information about commercial airline passengers who flew in June 2004, despite Congressional instructions not to do so. The documents indicate the information...

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Turkish militant gets life for plan to fly plane into Ataturk tomb
Krista-Ann Staley
June 21, 2005 10:33:00 am

A Turkish court sentenced Metin Kaplan Monday to life imprisonment for plotting to kill members of the country's ruling elite by flying a plane into the mausoleum of Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish republic....

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News Cambodia accepts Japanese offer to help fund Khmer Rouge trials
Cambodia accepts Japanese offer to help fund Khmer Rouge trials
David Shucosky
June 21, 2005 10:29:00 am

The Cambodian government announced Tuesday that it will accept Japan's offer of $11 million to fund a shortfall in the estimated budget for trying former leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime, considered responsible for...

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Saudis rebuff Rice call for rights, democratic reform
Krista-Ann Staley
June 21, 2005 10:11:00 am

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called for democratic reforms by US allies across the Middle East in a major foreign policy address in Cairo Monday, and publicly called on Saudi Arabia to release...

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California upholds state sentencing guidelines
David Shucosky
June 21, 2005 09:48:00 am

The California Supreme Court upheld state sentencing guidelines on Monday, ruling that allowing judges to impose a discretionary range of sentences for various crimes did not give them too much power. The ruling follows the recent US...

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International commission upholds whaling ban despite Japan objection
David Shucosky
June 21, 2005 09:39:00 am

The International Whaling Commission voted 29-23 against lifting its ban on commercial whaling Tuesday at its 2005 annual meeting . Japan had recently threatened to leave the organization if it didn't allow for some sort...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

First US life insurance company incorporated

On January 11, 1759, America's first life insurance company was incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of Presbyterian Ministers was established by Presbyterians to support the families of their ministers. In 1988, the company's name was changed to the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund. The company later became Covenant Life Insurance Company before being acquired by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company in 2002. Read a history of the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund from the Pennsylvania Historical Society.

Treaty ended Anglo-American claims, courts in China

On January 11, 1943, the United States and Great Britain relinquished by treaty their extraterritorial claims in China. This abandonment effectively ended the jurisdiction of the extraterritorial United States Court for China (established 1906) and the British Supreme Court in China. Read more about the United States Court for China, which one scholar has called "probably the strangest federal tribunal ever constituted by Congress," in a short online history of the US Ninth Circuit.

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