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News Judge orders Abu Ali sentencing delayed for surveillance check
Judge orders Abu Ali sentencing delayed for surveillance check
Lauren Becker
February 22, 2006 09:59:00 am

A federal judge has granted a request by defense attorneys that sentencing for Ahmed Omar Abu Ali , convicted in November of last year for joining al Qaeda and conspiring to assassinate President...

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News French court fines Diana crash paparazzi for privacy breach
French court fines Diana crash paparazzi for privacy breach
Tom Henry
February 22, 2006 09:27:00 am

A French court has ordered the three acquitted photographers who pursued Princess Diana and Dodi al Fayed's car the night of their fatal crash in 1997 to pay one euro in damages...

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News Milosevic asks ICTY to speed ruling on request for medical treatment in Russia
Milosevic asks ICTY to speed ruling on request for medical treatment in Russia
Tom Henry
February 22, 2006 08:53:00 am

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Wednesday again asked the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to answer his request for provisional release to travel to Russia for...

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News Rights group reports 98 deaths of detainees in US custody
Rights group reports 98 deaths of detainees in US custody
Angela A. Onikepe
February 22, 2006 08:39:00 am

Nearly 100 detainees have died in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since August 2002, according to findings of the US rights group Human Rights First initially reported Tuesday evening on BBC television's Newsnight program [video...

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News ICTY prosecutor says war crimes fugitive Mladic still at large
ICTY prosecutor says war crimes fugitive Mladic still at large
Jeannie Shawl
February 22, 2006 08:39:00 am

Carla del Ponte , chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , said Wednesday that Serbian government officials had told her that war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has...

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News International brief ~ Israeli rights group files suit against Iranian president
International brief ~ Israeli rights group files suit against Iranian president
D. Wes Rist
February 22, 2006 08:39:00 am

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Israeli attorney Eran Shahar, representing Civil Coalition (CC), a civil rights group, has filed a lawsuit against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the German Constitutional Court on charges of incitement and denying the...

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Top Democrat on House intelligence panel says White House blocked surveillance briefing
Tom Henry
February 22, 2006 08:30:00 am

US Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) , the ranking Democrat on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence , said Tuesday that a top intelligence official had been prepared to brief the committee in December on the Bush administration's...

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Chile judge refuses release of ex-Peru president Fujimori
Tom Henry
February 22, 2006 08:00:00 am

Chilean judge Orlando Alvarez on Tuesday refused to release former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori from custody while the judge considers an extradition request for Fujimori . The decision means Fujimori, who is being...

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News Hallucinogenic tea religious freedom ruling [US SC]
Hallucinogenic tea religious freedom ruling [US SC]
February 21, 2006 10:21:00 pm

Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal, US Supreme Court, February 21, 2006 . Read the full text of the...

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Voting Rights Act renewal report [NCVRA]
February 21, 2006 10:19:00 pm

Protecting Minority Voters: The Voting Rights Act at Work 1982-2005, National Commission on the Voting Rights Act, February 21, 2006 . Excerpt:In short,...

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Confederate rebels' voting rights restored under amnesty

On May 22, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the General Amnesty Act, allowing all but about 500 Southern male voters denied voting rights as a punishment for rebellion under the XIVth Amendment to regain their right to vote and hold office. General amnesty was finally made universal on June 6, 1898.

Sri Lanka constitution ratified

On May 22, 1972, the former British colony of Ceylon ratified a new constitution, becoming the Republic of Sri Lanka.

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