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News Federal judge says deported Cubans reached US soil in bridge landing case
Federal judge says deported Cubans reached US soil in bridge landing case
Jeannie Shawl
March 1, 2006 09:17:00 am

US District Judge Federico Moreno ruled Tuesday that the US Coast Guard acted unreasonably when it sent 15 Cubans back home after their boat reached an abandoned bridge in January and said that the Cubans had reached...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Saddam admits ordering trial of Dujail villagers, but denies crime
BREAKING NEWS ~ Saddam admits ordering trial of Dujail villagers, but denies crime
Jeannie Shawl
March 1, 2006 08:51:00 am

Saddam Hussein admitted in court Wednesday that he had ordered the trial of a group of Shiites who were executed under his regime in the 1980s and that he had ordered that their land be confiscated,...

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News International brief ~ Security Council to hear new resolution on Sudan sanctions
International brief ~ Security Council to hear new resolution on Sudan sanctions
D. Wes Rist
March 1, 2006 08:39:00 am

Leading Wednesday's international brief, a British official has revealed that the UN Security Council will be presented with a resolution in the next two weeks that will seek to impose mandatory sanctions against up to ten government...

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News Montenegro accepts EU plan for independence vote, delays referendum
Montenegro accepts EU plan for independence vote, delays referendum
Angela A. Onikepe
March 1, 2006 07:24:00 am

The Montenegrin government agreed Tuesday to delay the republic's independence referendum from Serbia originally scheduled for April 30 and accept a controversial formula proposed by the European Union (EU) . The EU said...

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News Milosevic subpoenas Clinton for ICTY trial
Milosevic subpoenas Clinton for ICTY trial
Angela A. Onikepe
March 1, 2006 07:20:00 am

Two British court-appointed lawyers assisting former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic have submitted a motion to subpoena former US president Bill Clinton to testify at Milosevic's trial before the International Criminal Tribunal...

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News Evolution opponents sue Russian Education Ministry
Evolution opponents sue Russian Education Ministry
Angela A. Onikepe
March 1, 2006 04:23:00 am

The Russian Education Ministry faces a lawsuit calling for it to remove evolution from the national science curriculum. The parents of Maria Shreiber, a 15 year old schoolgirl from St. Petersburg, have argued in...

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On October 10, 1967, the Outer Space Treaty demilitarizing outer space entered into force.

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On October 10, 1973, Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigned from his office in the face of allegations of tax fraud. Two days later, President Richard Nixon appointed House Minority Leader to replace Agnew as his VP. Read a biography of Spiro Agnew.

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