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News Former UK officials plead not guilty to leaking Aljazeera bombing memo
Former UK officials plead not guilty to leaking Aljazeera bombing memo
Tom Henry
April 26, 2006 07:12:00 am

David Keogh, a former British civil servant in the Cabinet Office, and Leo O'Connor, a former legislative assistant to former Labour MP Tony Clarke, have pleaded not guilty to breaching Section 3 of Britain's Official Secrets Act by...

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News UK Home Secretary spars with chief justice over terror threat and civil liberties
UK Home Secretary spars with chief justice over terror threat and civil liberties
Angela A. Onikepe
April 26, 2006 06:12:00 am

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke sparred Tuesday with a former South African chief justice chairing an independent panel of inquiry into UK terrorism laws as Clarke testified on government policies that limit civil liberties. The two...

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News Former French Guantanamo detainees to face Paris trial
Former French Guantanamo detainees to face Paris trial
Angela A. Onikepe
April 26, 2006 04:22:00 am

French authorities are charging six former French Guantanamo Bay detainees with terrorism-related crimes, according to officials cited by AFP. The men are Nizar Sassi, Khaled Ben Mustapha, Redouane Khalid, Brahim Yadel, Imad Achab Kanouni, and...

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News UK admits to releasing over 1000 foreign criminals by mistake before deportation reviews
UK admits to releasing over 1000 foreign criminals by mistake before deportation reviews
Angela A. Onikepe
April 26, 2006 04:03:00 am

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke has insisted he will not resign despite admitting Tuesday to a "shocking administrative blunder" that resulted in the release of 1023 foreign criminals in the past seven years who were to...

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News Darfur individual sanctions resolution [UN Security Council]
Darfur individual sanctions resolution [UN Security Council]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 25, 2006 11:50:00 pm

Resolution 1672, UN Security Council, April 25, 2006 [imposing restrictions on the assets and international travel of Major General Gaffar Mohamed Elhassan, Commander of the Western Military Region for the Sudanese Air Force; Adam Yacub Shant, Commander of the Sudanese...

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News UN Security Council imposes sanctions on individuals for Sudan abuses
UN Security Council imposes sanctions on individuals for Sudan abuses
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 25, 2006 09:06:00 pm

The UN Security Council passed a resolution 12-0 Tuesday imposing sanctions on four individuals for acts or abuses committed in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan and calling for the conclusion of a peace agreement for...

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News Supreme Court considers duress defense, federal question, death penalty cases
Supreme Court considers duress defense, federal question, death penalty cases
Jeannie Shawl
April 25, 2006 07:39:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday considered whether a criminal defendant must prove a duress defense by a preponderance of the evidence or, instead, if the government must prove absence of duress beyond a...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Hamid Hayat convicted on terror camp charges
BREAKING NEWS ~ Hamid Hayat convicted on terror camp charges
Jeannie Shawl
April 25, 2006 07:10:00 pm

AP is reporting that a federal jury in California has found Hamid Hayat guilty of providing material support to terrorists by attending an al Qaeda training camp in Pakistan. Hayat was also found guilty...

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News Denmark declines request to take custody of Taylor after trial
Denmark declines request to take custody of Taylor after trial
Jeannie Shawl
April 25, 2006 06:07:00 pm

Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said Tuesday that Denmark intended to turn down a request to take custody of former Liberian President Charles Taylor should he be convicted of war crimes...

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News Guantanamo conditions ‘considerably’ improved: Red Cross
Guantanamo conditions ‘considerably’ improved: Red Cross
Jeannie Shawl
April 25, 2006 05:10:00 pm

Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross , said Tuesday that ICRC recommendations to US officials have resulted in considerable improvements in detention conditions at Guantanamo Bay . Kellenberger told Swiss newspaper...

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Biological Weapons Convention goes into force

On March 26, 1975, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction went into force. Today, 162 countries have signed the Convention, pledging never "to develop, produce, stockpile or otherwise acquire or retain" biological weapons. Some signatory nations, however, have reserved the right to hold certain biological weapons for "prophylactic" purposes. Learn more about the UN Biological Weapons Convention.

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