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News Grand jury indicts father and son for alleged links to al-Qaida
Grand jury indicts father and son for alleged links to al-Qaida
Holly Manges Jones
June 16, 2005 07:03:00 pm

A father and son were indicted by a federal grand jury in California Thursday for allegedly lying to the FBI about the son attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan with connections to al-Qaida....

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News States brief ~ GA high court warns about jury instructions on eyewitness evidence
States brief ~ GA high court warns about jury instructions on eyewitness evidence
Rachel Felton
June 16, 2005 05:20:00 pm

Leading Thursday's states brief, the Supreme Court of Georgia has warned criminal trial judges to be careful in the way they instruct juries about weighing the value of eyewitness identification. In a decision today, the Court said...

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News Chechen rebel leader wanted for murder of Forbes editor
Chechen rebel leader wanted for murder of Forbes editor
Tom Henry
June 16, 2005 04:24:00 pm

Chechen rebel leader Khozh-Akhmed Nukhayev ordered the murder of American journalist Paul Klebnikov according to a report released Thursday by the Russian Prosecutor General's Office. Klebnikov, editor of the Russian edition of Forbes, was shot to death...

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News Canada high court says no right to counsel at sobriety checkpoints
Canada high court says no right to counsel at sobriety checkpoints
Jamie Sterling
June 16, 2005 04:20:00 pm

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday that police at roadside DUI checkpoints do not have to inform suspects of their right to legal counsel before asking them whether or not they had been drinking or...

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News International brief ~ Zimbabwe evictions appealed to African human rights body
International brief ~ Zimbabwe evictions appealed to African human rights body
D. Wes Rist
June 16, 2005 04:05:00 pm

Leading Thursday's international brief, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights have filed an official appeal with the African Commission for Human and Peoples' Rights , the regional human rights body in Africa, to intervene...

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News Dutch UN commander claims troops didn’t know Serb intent in Srebrenica
Dutch UN commander claims troops didn’t know Serb intent in Srebrenica
Tom Henry
June 16, 2005 03:49:00 pm

The commander of Dutch UN troops in Srebrenica in 1995 told a preliminary hearing at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Thursday that he did not know Serbian forces had begun killing Muslim men and...

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News Saddam lawyer says document requests ignored
Saddam lawyer says document requests ignored
Tom Henry
June 16, 2005 03:27:00 pm

Chief lawyer to Saddam Hussein Ziad Khasawneh Thursday accused the Iraqi Special Tribunal and the US government of purposely ignoring repeated requests for legal documents and effectively keeping defense counsel unaware of the trial...

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News Briton buys oil rights in Darfur
Briton buys oil rights in Darfur
Jamie Sterling
June 16, 2005 02:32:00 pm

British millionaire Friedhelm Eronat has been awarded oil rights for the Darfur region of Sudan , an area where the Sudanese government has been accused of war crimes and mass murders. Human rights groups like Global Witness ...

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News Venezuela officially asks for extradition of Cuban anti-Castro militant
Venezuela officially asks for extradition of Cuban anti-Castro militant
Jamie Sterling
June 16, 2005 02:25:00 pm

Venezuela has officially requested the extradition of alleged terrorist and Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles . Carriles, a naturalized Venezuelan and former CIA collaborator, is wanted for allegedly blowing up a Cuban airline in 1976 and later escaping...

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Wolfowitz offers world apology for Rwandan genocide
Jamie Sterling
June 16, 2005 02:05:00 pm

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz visited a Rwandan genocide memorial Thursday and apologized on behalf of the international community for its failure to prevent the 1994 mass genocide . Wolfowitz is on...

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Soviet spy Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years in UK prison

On March 1, 1950, German-British atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs was sentenced to 14 years in prison by a UK court for passing British and American nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. Read a biography of Fuchs from PBS.

Civil Rights Act of 1875 became law

On March 1, 1875, the Civil Rights Act of 1875 became law. It declared that all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law. In 1883, in the Civil Rights Cases, the US Supreme Court ruled the 1875 Act unconstitutional and unauthorized by either the 13th or 14th Amendments. Congress passed no more civil rights legislation until 1957.

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