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News Advisor claims Taylor was arrested by same Nigerians who helped him flee
Advisor claims Taylor was arrested by same Nigerians who helped him flee
Holly Manges Jones
April 3, 2006 07:46:00 am

A spiritual advisor for former Liberian President Charles Taylor has said that Nigerian security forces led Taylor to the border of Cameroon to facilitate his escape, but then returned to arrest him...

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News Frist pushing for immigration reform vote in Senate this week
Frist pushing for immigration reform vote in Senate this week
Holly Manges Jones
April 3, 2006 07:08:00 am

US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) said Sunday that he wants the full Senate to vote on an immigration bill by the end of the week, detailing three areas that must be addressed : border...

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News ‘Minuteman’ private border patrols restart amidst heated immigration debate
‘Minuteman’ private border patrols restart amidst heated immigration debate
Elizabeth Schultz
April 2, 2006 11:51:00 am

Members of the private Minuteman Civil Defense Corps have begun a new month-long campaign in US states bordering Mexico and Canada to raise public awareness of illegal immigration. Minuteman volunteers watch the borders...

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News Contrat premiere embauche (CPE) statute [France JO]
Contrat premiere embauche (CPE) statute [France JO]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 2, 2006 11:17:00 am

Loi no 2006-396 du 31 mars 2006 pour l'egalité des chances , Journal Officiel de la Republique Francaise, April 2, 2006. CPE excerpt:Article 8I. − Les...

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News La loi CPE – contrat premiere embauche [Journal officiel]
La loi CPE – contrat premiere embauche [Journal officiel]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 2, 2006 11:17:00 am

Loi no 2006-396 du 31 mars 2006 pour l'egalité des chances , Journal Officiel de la Republique Francaise, April 2, 2006. CPE excerpt:Article 8I. − Les...

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News French CPE labor law goes on the books despite controversy
French CPE labor law goes on the books despite controversy
Elizabeth Schultz
April 2, 2006 11:06:00 am

A controversial French labor law that has prompted strikes and mass demonstrations by students and workers across France was officially published Sunday in France's Journal officiel gazette after being signed by President Jacques Chirac . The...

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News Taylor set for first war crimes court appearance as lawyer appeals for defense funds
Taylor set for first war crimes court appearance as lawyer appeals for defense funds
Elizabeth Schultz
April 2, 2006 10:09:00 am

Former Liberian president and accused war criminal Charles Taylor is set to make his first appearance in the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) before Justice Richard Lussick at Freetown on Monday,...

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News Vioxx class action certification ruling [SC NJ AD]
Vioxx class action certification ruling [SC NJ AD]
April 1, 2006 10:08:00 pm

International Union of Operating Engineers Local #68 Welfare Fund v. Merck & Co., Inc., Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division, March 31, 2006 [upholding a trial court decision to certify a nationwide class of plaintiffs suing the drug maker...

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News Saddam prosecutor to present evidence on campaign against Kurds
Saddam prosecutor to present evidence on campaign against Kurds
Jaime Jansen
April 1, 2006 03:50:00 pm

Documents showing Saddam Hussein's role in Iraq's 1987-1989 Anfal campaign against the Kurds are ready to be presented to the Iraqi High Criminal Court , according to Jaafar Al Moussawi, the chief prosecutor...

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News France protest leaders reject Chirac compromise on CPE youth labor law
France protest leaders reject Chirac compromise on CPE youth labor law
Jaime Jansen
April 1, 2006 03:27:00 pm

French union and student leaders Saturday rejected as "unacceptable" a compromise offered by President Jacques Chirac on the First Employment Contract (CPE) , insisting they would continue public...

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Bank of England granted political independence

On May 6, 1997, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the Bank of England would be granted political independence for the first time in the three-hundred year history of the Bank. This policy was statutized in the subsequent Bank of England Act of 1998 gave the Bank independent control of British monetary policy effective June 1, 1998. Read the Bank of England Act of 1998.

Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese laborers from US

On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States and prohibiting courts from bestowing US citizenship on Chinese. Connecticut Senator Joseph Hawley spoke out against the Act in these words: Let the proposed statue be read 100 years hence, dug out of the dust of ages and forgotten as it will be except for a line of sneer by some historian, and ask the young man not well read in the history of this country what was the reason for excluding these men and he would not be able to find it in the law. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its successors were abolished in 1943 at the insistence of President Franklin Roosevelt.

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