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News International brief ~ Kenya outlaws opposition rallies, dismisses new elections
International brief ~ Kenya outlaws opposition rallies, dismisses new elections
D. Wes Rist
November 28, 2005 08:05:00 am

Leading Monday's international brief, Kenyan Vice-President Moody Awori has announced that the Kenyan government is outlawing all rallies by the Orange Movement, the anti-constitution coalition that handed Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki a solid defeat in...

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News Second TIME reporter to testify in CIA leak probe
Second TIME reporter to testify in CIA leak probe
Sara R. Parsowith
November 28, 2005 07:42:00 am

Viveca Novak, a TIME magazine reporter who covered the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity, has been asked to testify by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald in the leak investigation which is now...

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News Saddam trial adjourned until Dec. 5 after brief session
Saddam trial adjourned until Dec. 5 after brief session
Sara R. Parsowith
November 28, 2005 07:04:00 am

The trial of Saddam Hussein resumed Monday, but was quickly adjourned until December 5 to allow two of Hussein's co-defendants, including former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, to find replacements for members of the defense team...

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News Former Iraq PM Allawi says rights abuses as bad as under Saddam
Former Iraq PM Allawi says rights abuses as bad as under Saddam
Jaime Jansen
November 27, 2005 04:12:00 pm

In a bid to appeal to Sunni voters, former Iraqi interim prime minister Iyad Allawi , a Shiite, said in an interview with the UK's Observer newspaper Sunday that human...

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News Armenians vote in constitutional referendum
Armenians vote in constitutional referendum
Jaime Jansen
November 27, 2005 04:03:00 pm

Citizens in the former Soviet republic of Armenia voted Sunday on constitutional amendments to impose stricter separation of powers between the judicial, executive and legislative branches. The amendments also remove a clause in the Armenian constitution ...

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News UK rejects US proposal to block UN budget in reform bid
UK rejects US proposal to block UN budget in reform bid
Jaime Jansen
November 27, 2005 03:36:00 pm

Britain has caused a diplomatic stir by rejecting a proposal advanced by US ambassador to the UN John Bolton to block the upcoming UN budget as a way to press disputed reforms to the beleagured...

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News Philippines president cleared of  fraud allegations by electoral official
Philippines president cleared of fraud allegations by electoral official
Jaime Jansen
November 27, 2005 03:21:00 pm

Former Philippines election commissioner Virgilio Garcillano emerged from hiding Sunday to clear President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from election fraud allegations. Garcillano has not been seen in public since June, when the opposition released recordings of...

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News Saddam defense joined by former US AG Clark set to seek new adjournment
Saddam defense joined by former US AG Clark set to seek new adjournment
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
November 27, 2005 12:59:00 pm

Lawyers for Saddam Hussein, reinforced by the late addition of Johnson-era US attorney general Ramsey Clark and former Qatari justice minister Najib al-Nuaimi, said Sunday that they would ask for another adjournment of the ousted Iraqi dictator's...

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News US denies secret Kosovo detention camp
US denies secret Kosovo detention camp
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
November 27, 2005 10:18:00 am

A US military spokesman has said there is no secret detainee camp run by the US in Kosovo, although the US military there does share a well-known detention facility with NATO as part of the latter's KFOR ...

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News Taliban corpse burnings report [US Army]
Taliban corpse burnings report [US Army]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
November 26, 2005 09:50:00 pm

Investigation into the Gumbad incident, executive summary, US Central Command [US Army investigation into US military burnings of the bodies of deceased Taliban fighters at Gumbad, Afghanistan, concluding that the bodies were burned for hygienic purposes and recommending disciplinary action...

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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty took effect

On March 5, 1970, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty took effect after ratification by 43 countries. Read a brief history of the NPT.

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On March 5, 1984, the US Supreme Court upheld a nativity scene built on public land by the City of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The Court in Lynch v. Donnelly held that the creche did not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits the government from passing any "law respecting an establishment of religion".

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