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News Eight charged in Mugabe assassination plot after alleging torture
Eight charged in Mugabe assassination plot after alleging torture
Lisl Brunner
March 13, 2006 09:01:00 am

Eight people have been charged in Zimbabwe with plotting the assassination of President Robert Mugabe following the arrests of 15 suspects on Friday. Several members of the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) [party...

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News Saddam-era judge insists Shiites executed for assassination bid had proper trial
Saddam-era judge insists Shiites executed for assassination bid had proper trial
Holly Manges Jones
March 13, 2006 08:34:00 am

A former Iraqi judge on trial with Saddam Hussein testified Monday in Baghdad that he sentenced 148 Shiites to death after a 1982 assassination attempt on the former dictator in the town of Dujail, but asserted...

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News UN rights commission suspends session for a week in hopes of council deal
UN rights commission suspends session for a week in hopes of council deal
Holly Manges Jones
March 13, 2006 07:49:00 am

The annual six-week meeting of the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva was suspended after just four minutes on Monday to give the 191 member governments of the UN General Assembly more time to...

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News British SAS soldier cites illegality of US Iraq tactics as reason for resigning
British SAS soldier cites illegality of US Iraq tactics as reason for resigning
Tatyana Margolin
March 13, 2006 07:18:00 am

A member of the elite Special Air Service special forces of the British Army who refused to return to Iraq and later left British military service said in an interview published in the UK...

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News Berlusconi assails Italian judiciary in bid for electoral win
Berlusconi assails Italian judiciary in bid for electoral win
Tatyana Margolin
March 13, 2006 06:02:00 am

Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi called Italy's judiciary “the disease of our democracy” in a weekend TV interview, promising changes to the judicial system as he himself faces the possibility of a new trial before...

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News Bush censure resolution [Sen. Russ Feingold]
Bush censure resolution [Sen. Russ Feingold]
March 12, 2006 11:23:00 pm

Resolution relating to the censure of George W. Bush, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI), March 12, 2006 .Read the full...

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News UN rights commission annual session overshadowed by debate over new council
UN rights commission annual session overshadowed by debate over new council
Stefanie Presley
March 12, 2006 06:59:00 pm

The 53-member UN Commission on Human Rights is set to start its yearly and probably last six-week session in Geneva on Monday, but may not follow its customary agenda due to ongoing controversy over the...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Milosevic died of ‘heart failure’: ICTY official
BREAKING NEWS ~ Milosevic died of ‘heart failure’: ICTY official
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 12, 2006 04:27:00 pm

Wire services are reporting that initial results of an autopsy cited by an ICTY official at The Hague ahead of the public release of the findings indicate that Slobodan Milosevic died of "classical heart failure". Milosevic had a long...

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News Feingold introducing censure resolution against Bush for eavesdropping program
Feingold introducing censure resolution against Bush for eavesdropping program
Stefanie Presley
March 12, 2006 04:02:00 pm

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) said Sunday on ABC's This Week that he plans to introduce a censure resolution in the US Senate Monday condemning President Bush for approving the National Security Agency...

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News US states restricting access to more government information in secrecy surge
US states restricting access to more government information in secrecy surge
Nishat Hasan
March 12, 2006 12:25:00 pm

A new investigatory report by the Associated Press shows an increasing trend among state legislatures to restrict access to information that was public before the 9/11 attacks. Security concerns were found to be the main driving force...

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Line of Demarcation divides the New World between Spain and Portugal

On May 4, 1493, Pope Alexander VI promulgated the Line of Demarcation, dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal in response the return of Christopher Columbus from his discovery of the American continents. However, neither country was entirely satisfied with the placement of the Line. A year later on June 7, 1494, the two nations signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which moved the Line of Demarcation further west, giving Portugal claim to Brazil.

Kent State student shootings precipitated lawsuits

On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen at Kent State University opened fire on students protesting the US invasion of Cambodia, killing four.

Review a legal chronology of the Kent State shootings, from May 5, 1970 (the day the FBI investigation started) to January 4, 1979 (the day the state of Ohio reached an out-of-court settlement for $675,000 with victims and relatives of victims).

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