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News DOJ, DOD watchdogs pass up probes of NSA spying program
DOJ, DOD watchdogs pass up probes of NSA spying program
James M Yoch Jr
January 11, 2006 08:30:00 pm

US Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine has forwarded a request to investigate President Bush’s authorization of National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropping on US residents to the Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, citing...

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News Death penalty sentencing factors ruling [US SC]
Death penalty sentencing factors ruling [US SC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
January 11, 2006 07:28:00 pm

Brown v. Sanders, Supreme Court of the United States, January 11, 2006 . Read the Court's opinion...

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News Iraqi Shiite leader balks at major changes to constitution
Iraqi Shiite leader balks at major changes to constitution
James M Yoch Jr
January 11, 2006 07:20:00 pm

Abdul Aziz Hakim , leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the country’s most powerful Shiite politician, said Wednesday that a new Iraqi government dominated by religious Shiites elected in the December 15 parliamentary...

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News Supreme Court considers standard of review for new evidence in murder case
Supreme Court considers standard of review for new evidence in murder case
James M Yoch Jr
January 11, 2006 07:14:00 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in House v. Bell , where it will decide whether appellant Paul Gregory House, who was convicted and sentenced to death...

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News UN names former Belgian prosecutor as new chief of Hariri probe
UN names former Belgian prosecutor as new chief of Hariri probe
James M Yoch Jr
January 11, 2006 06:44:00 pm

The UN Wednesday officially named Serge Brammertz , Deputy Prosecutor with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and a former Belgian federal prosecutor, as the new Commissioner of the ongoing UN investigation into the February 2005 assassination...

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News Yemen indictee boycotting reconvened Guantanamo tribunal
Yemen indictee boycotting reconvened Guantanamo tribunal
Christopher G. Anderson
January 11, 2006 04:21:00 pm

A Yemeni man alleged to have been an al Qaeda propagandist and security officer for Osama bin Laden told a US military commission at Guantanamo Bay Wednesday that he was boycotting the just-reconvened proceedings ....

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News Would-be Bush assassin gets life sentence in Georgian Republic
Would-be Bush assassin gets life sentence in Georgian Republic
Christopher G. Anderson
January 11, 2006 03:45:00 pm

A man from the Georgian Republic who lobbed a grenade toward US President George W. Bush while he was on a visit there in May last year was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday by a Georgian court. Vladimir...

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News Argentina judge sending Serb war crimes suspect to Hague tribunal
Argentina judge sending Serb war crimes suspect to Hague tribunal
Krystal MacIntyre
January 11, 2006 03:27:00 pm

Argentine judge Jorge Urso has decided to send accused Bosnian Serb war criminal Milan Lukic, arrested in Buenos Aires in August, to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague for trial,...

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News Families of deported Cubans challenge US landing rule
Families of deported Cubans challenge US landing rule
Christopher G. Anderson
January 11, 2006 03:08:00 pm

The families of fifteen Cubans deported when they failed to reach US soil have filed suit in US District Court, claiming that the US government's so-called "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy is inconsistent with US and international law. The fifteen Cubans...

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News Chile court upholds Pinochet bail in one case,  removes immunity in another
Chile court upholds Pinochet bail in one case, removes immunity in another
Krystal MacIntyre
January 11, 2006 03:03:00 pm

The 23-member Santiago Appeals Court Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling granting former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet bail, but at the same time stripped him of immunity an additional human rights case,...

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Guyana gains independence

On May 26, 1966, Guyana gained independence from the United Kingdom.

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