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News Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs highlighted by GAO report
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs highlighted by GAO report
Tom Henry
May 9, 2006 12:10:00 pm

An increasing number of small businesses are going private in order to avoid disproportionately higher costs of complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) ....

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News Estonia parliament votes to ratify EU constitution
Estonia parliament votes to ratify EU constitution
Tom Henry
May 9, 2006 12:08:00 pm

Estonia on Tuesday became the fifteenth nation to ratify the European Constitution . The ratification is expected to have little effect on the charter after rejections of the document by France and the Netherlands...

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News FBI probes CIA defense contracts after top official resigns
FBI probes CIA defense contracts after top official resigns
Tom Henry
May 9, 2006 10:32:00 am

An FBI investigation into the activities of former CIA Executive Director and number-three agency official Kyle "Dusty" Foggo has intensified after Foggo's resignation Monday. The FBI probe is looking into whether Foggo took steps to improperly aid...

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News Thailand courts to supervise new elections after constitutional court voids results
Thailand courts to supervise new elections after constitutional court voids results
Tom Henry
May 9, 2006 09:23:00 am

A spokesman for Thailand's Supreme Court said Tuesday that when new parliamentary elections are held, the country's highest courts will take a leading role in guaranteeing free and open elections. The announcement comes one day after the Constitutional Court...

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News International brief ~ US to request UN resolution on UN peacekeepers in Darfur
International brief ~ US to request UN resolution on UN peacekeepers in Darfur
D. Wes Rist
May 9, 2006 09:06:00 am

Leading Tuesday's international brief, US President George W. Bush has announced that the United States will be asking the UN Security Council to accelerate Sudan's acceptance of UN troops to supplement the...

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News China wants Gitmo Uighurs back, says Albania transfer breaks international law
China wants Gitmo Uighurs back, says Albania transfer breaks international law
Tom Henry
May 9, 2006 08:37:00 am

In the wake of the US government's decision to transfer five Chinese Uighur men from Guantanamo Bay to Albania, the Chinese government on Tuesday denounced the move as a violation of international law...

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News ABA lowers rating for controversial judicial nominee as Senate hearing looms
ABA lowers rating for controversial judicial nominee as Senate hearing looms
Tom Henry
May 9, 2006 08:03:00 am

In a reversal of judgment, the American Bar Association on Monday lowered its rating of White House aide and nominee to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Brett Kavanaugh from "well...

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News JURIST wins Webby People’s Voice Award as best Law website of 2006
JURIST wins Webby People’s Voice Award as best Law website of 2006
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 9, 2006 07:35:00 am

JURIST has won the Webby People's Voice Award as the best Law website of 2006. Called the "online Oscars" by TIME magazine and presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences...

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News Kenya ex-minister accused of corruption launching court challenge against UK ban
Kenya ex-minister accused of corruption launching court challenge against UK ban
Tatyana Margolin
May 9, 2006 06:08:00 am

Lawyers acting for former Kenyan transport minister Chris Murungaru will appear in the High Court in London on Tuesday to challenge a travel ban imposed last summer to prevent him...

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News ICTY sentences Bosnian Croat militia leader to 12 years for war crimes
ICTY sentences Bosnian Croat militia leader to 12 years for war crimes
Angela A. Onikepe
May 9, 2006 05:01:00 am

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Monday sentenced former Bosnia Croat militia commander Ivica Rajic to twelve years in prison for leading an October 1993 attack against...

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US Supreme Court said bussing could be used to achieve racial integration

On April 20, 1971, the US Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education that busing of school students could be ordered to achieve racial desegregation.

League of Nations dissolved

On April 20, 1946, the League of Nations was officially dissolved with the close of its final session. Thirty-four countries had attended the final meeting at which they elected to dismantle the organization and bequeath its assets to the United Nations. Read a history of League of Nations from the UN.

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