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News Myanmar extends house arrest for pro-democracy leader despite release calls
Myanmar extends house arrest for pro-democracy leader despite release calls
Holly Manges Jones
May 27, 2006 12:22:00 pm

The military government of Myanmar - formerly Burma - Saturday extended the house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi for another year, according to a government source speaking to Reuters on...

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News Afghanistan parliament refuses to reinstate high court chief justice
Afghanistan parliament refuses to reinstate high court chief justice
Holly Manges Jones
May 27, 2006 11:55:00 am

The parliament of Afghanistan on Saturday voted against reappointing Chief Justice Fazel Hadi Shinwari to continue his lead post on the Afghanistan Supreme Court . Afghan President Hamid Karzai had recommended Shinwari to...

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News ‘Iraqi agent’ sentenced to 13 years in prison
‘Iraqi agent’ sentenced to 13 years in prison
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 27, 2006 11:54:00 am

A federal judge in Indianapolis sentenced an Indiana truck driver to 160 months in prison Friday for acting as an unregistered foreign agent and violating sanctions against Iraq. Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, a Soviet-educated Palestinian Ph.D. who speaks...

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News California appeals court says shield law extends to online journalists in Apple case
California appeals court says shield law extends to online journalists in Apple case
Holly Manges Jones
May 27, 2006 11:31:00 am

A California appeals court ruled Friday that Apple Computer is not permitted to subpoena an Internet service for e-mail records in order to uncover the names of online reporters who leaked information about unreleased product...

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News Egypt protesters say tortured by police after peaceful demonstration
Egypt protesters say tortured by police after peaceful demonstration
Holly Manges Jones
May 27, 2006 10:52:00 am

Two Egyptian protesters were allegedly tortured and sexually assaulted by Egyptian police after a peaceful demonstration in favor of two judicial reformists who exposed alleged fraud in the country's election last year, according to one of the...

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News Gonzales threatened to quit if forced to turn over Jefferson office search evidence: NYT
Gonzales threatened to quit if forced to turn over Jefferson office search evidence: NYT
Holly Manges Jones
May 27, 2006 10:09:00 am

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, and FBI Director Robert Mueller were among a host of other government officials and prosecutors at the US Department of Justice who said they would...

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News Hastert, Frist cool constitutional confrontation with DOJ over office search
Hastert, Frist cool constitutional confrontation with DOJ over office search
Joshua Pantesco
May 26, 2006 03:27:00 pm

In the wake of public urging from President Bush, Congressional leaders Friday took steps to damp down a brewing constitutional conflict with the US Department of Justice over a weekend FBI search of the...

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News Marines may have murdered two dozen Iraqi civilians at Haditha: top DOD official
Marines may have murdered two dozen Iraqi civilians at Haditha: top DOD official
Joshua Pantesco
May 26, 2006 02:46:00 pm

An ongoing investigation into the November 2005 deaths of two dozen Iraqi civilians in the city of Haditha has yielded evidence indicating that the US Marines may have committed murders, according to a senior military officer speaking to AP...

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News Stewart to contest SEC insider trading charges
Stewart to contest SEC insider trading charges
Jaime Jansen
May 26, 2006 01:43:00 pm

Martha Stewart has opted to deny allegations of insider trading brought in a civil lawsuit by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rather than settle the charges. Stewart's Thursday response...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Judge orders TIME magazine to turn over documents in CIA leak case
BREAKING NEWS ~ Judge orders TIME magazine to turn over documents in CIA leak case
Joshua Pantesco
May 26, 2006 01:17:00 pm

AP is reporting that the federal judge in the CIA leak case against former Vice-Presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has granted part of Libby's request to issue subpoenas to TIME magazine and the New York Times...

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Marie Antoinette convicted of treason and guillotened

French Queen consort Marie Antoinette was convicted of treason by a Revolutionary court and then guillotined on October 16, 1793. The queen consort was convicted of conspiring with foreign powers, depleting the treasury, and high treason only four days after her initial arrest on October 12. Her husband Louis XVI was executed nine months prior. Learn more about the trial and execution of Marie Antoinette.

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