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News Deported Lithuanian found guilty of Nazi war crimes but avoids prison sentence
Deported Lithuanian found guilty of Nazi war crimes but avoids prison sentence
Krystal MacIntyre
March 27, 2006 01:11:00 pm

Algimantas Dailide , a retired real estate broker from the Cleveland and Gulfport FL areas, was convicted Monday in his Lithuanian hometown on charges of helping the Nazis commit genocide against Jews...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Moussaoui testifies he was to fly 5th 9/11 plane into White House
BREAKING NEWS ~ Moussaoui testifies he was to fly 5th 9/11 plane into White House
Jeannie Shawl
March 27, 2006 12:50:00 pm

AP is reporting that al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui has testified that he and "shoe bomber" Richard Reid were meant to hijack a fifth airplane and fly it into the White House as part...

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News Supreme Court agrees to hear habeas appeals case
Supreme Court agrees to hear habeas appeals case
Alexandria Samuel
March 27, 2006 12:10:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal in Lawrence v. Florida , concerning a challenge to rules surrounding the one-year filing deadline for making habeas corpus claims in federal court....

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News UN begins Burundi talks to set up reconciliation commission, war crimes court
UN begins Burundi talks to set up reconciliation commission, war crimes court
Alexandria Samuel
March 27, 2006 11:21:00 am

A UN delegation led by Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicolas Michel arrived in the south African nation of Burundi Monday to help establish a truth and reconciliation commission and war crimes court. According to Michel,...

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News Microsoft files appeal in South Korea antitrust case
Microsoft files appeal in South Korea antitrust case
Lisl Brunner
March 27, 2006 10:53:00 am

Microsoft on Monday appealed a ruling from the South Korean Fair Trade Commission that the company breached antitrust laws by bundling its Windows operating system with Microsoft programs. In the decision ...

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News Zimbabwe proposes new anti-terror laws in wake of Mugabe assassination plot
Zimbabwe proposes new anti-terror laws in wake of Mugabe assassination plot
Lisl Brunner
March 27, 2006 09:40:00 am

Zimbabwe government on Monday announced new anti-terrorism laws that would allow the government to outlaw any group it declares to be a "foreign or international terrorist organization." The proposed Suppression of Foreign and International Terrorism Bill...

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News Moussaoui testimony expected as defense gets underway in sentencing trial
Moussaoui testimony expected as defense gets underway in sentencing trial
Lisl Brunner
March 27, 2006 09:08:00 am

The sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui on Monday enters what analysts expect to be a critical week, with testimony from Moussaoui and other key witnesses. Prosecutors concluded their case for giving Moussaoui the death...

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News Nigeria says location of war crimes indictee Taylor unknown
Nigeria says location of war crimes indictee Taylor unknown
Holly Manges Jones
March 27, 2006 08:34:00 am

A spokesman in Nigeria for former Liberian president Charles Taylor said Monday that his whereabouts are unknown, after Nigeria indicated over the weekend that Liberia could take Taylor into custody to stand trial for war...

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News Afghanistan clerics lead protest against release of Christian convert
Afghanistan clerics lead protest against release of Christian convert
Holly Manges Jones
March 27, 2006 07:53:00 am

Several hundred people led by Islamic clerics protested in Afghanistan Monday against the suggested release of a man who converted from Islam to Christianity. The religious leaders called for Abdul Rahman to be tried under Islamic sharia...

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News Federal judge to reconsider postponing New Orleans election
Federal judge to reconsider postponing New Orleans election
Holly Manges Jones
March 27, 2006 07:12:00 am

US District Judge Ivan Lemelle will hold a hearing Monday to hear arguments from civil rights groups that the upcoming April 22 municipal elections in New Orleans should be postponed because many African-American residents have been...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Gorbachev becomes USSR leader

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. He soon announced that he would hold arms-reduction negotiations in Geneva with the United States. Gorbachev also used his tenure to liberalize the economy and social structure of the USSR, eventually leading to the abatement of the Soviet Union. In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Read documents and interviews from the 1990 USA-USSR Summit.

Confederate Constitution adopted

On March 11, 1861, seven former US states adopted the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, which closely followed the language, if not necessarily the purport, of the original US Constitution. Section 9 (4) of the Confederate Constitution read "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed," enshrining the right to own slaves as fundamental law.

ICC holds first meeting

The war crimes court known as the International Criminal Court (ICC) swore in its first batch of judges on March 11, 2003. The meeting took place eight months after the ratification of the court's Rome Statute. Then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said of the occasion: It has taken mankind many years to reach this moment. By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these 11 men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures and legal traditions, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective conscience. Learn more about the work of the ICC.  

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