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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Abu Ghraib dog handler sentenced to 90 days hard labor
BREAKING NEWS ~ Abu Ghraib dog handler sentenced to 90 days hard labor
Jeannie Shawl
June 2, 2006 10:39:00 am

AP is reporting that US Army Sgt. Santos A. Cardona has been sentenced to 90 days hard labor without confinement and a reduction in rank for abusing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison ....

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News Russia prosecutor-general resigns unexpectedly
Russia prosecutor-general resigns unexpectedly
Jaime Jansen
June 2, 2006 10:23:00 am

Russian Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov unexpectedly quit Friday after Russian President Vladimir Putin recommended to the Russian upper house - the Federation Council - that Ustinov be asked to step down from...

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News US soldier convicted of abusing Afghan prisoner at Bagram
US soldier convicted of abusing Afghan prisoner at Bagram
Joshua Pantesco
June 2, 2006 10:07:00 am

Court-martial proceedings for 15 US soldiers implicated in the abuse of detainees at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, including the beating deaths of two Afghanis , ended in Fort...

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News Canada court stays deportation of top Chinese fugitive
Canada court stays deportation of top Chinese fugitive
Jaime Jansen
June 2, 2006 09:33:00 am

Canada's Federal Court Thursday stayed the deportation to China of Lai Changxing , the alleged leader of a Xiamen-based network suspected of smuggling up to $10 billion of goods such as cigarettes, automobiles, heating and cooking...

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News Iraq PM asking for Haditha files as US investigates more killings
Iraq PM asking for Haditha files as US investigates more killings
Jaime Jansen
June 2, 2006 08:42:00 am

New Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Friday that he will ask the United States to turn over its files pertaining to the investigation into the alleged killing of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha...

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News Marines to face murder charges in Hamandiya probe, lawyer says
Marines to face murder charges in Hamandiya probe, lawyer says
Jaime Jansen
June 2, 2006 08:03:00 am

US military prosecutors plan to file conspiracy and murder charges against seven enlisted Marines and one Navy corpsman for the alleged murder of an Iraqi civilian and subsequent cover-up on April 26 in Hamandiya, according to a defense lawyer...

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Blix WMD commission report [UN]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
June 1, 2006 10:52:00 pm

Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms, Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, Hans Blix, Chairman, June 1, 2006 [independent commission study calling for a total ban on the possession and use of nuclear weapons and...

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Blix commission calls for nuclear weapons ban
Tom Henry
June 1, 2006 08:09:00 pm

A study by the independent Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission , headed by former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix , has called for a total ban on the possession and use of nuclear weapons...

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News DOJ, Alaska want $92 million more for Exxon Valdez cleanup
DOJ, Alaska want $92 million more for Exxon Valdez cleanup
Tom Henry
June 1, 2006 07:42:00 pm

After re-examining the costs of cleaning up remaining oil from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill , the US Justice Department and the state of Alaska said Thursday that they would use a "reopener" provision in...

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California agrees to contribute National Guard troops for border patrol
Tom Henry
June 1, 2006 07:18:00 pm

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has agreed to support President Bush's deployment of National Guard troops along the Mexican border by sending 1,000 Guard members from California to join the effort. As part of the agreement,...

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World Intellectual Property Organization created

On April 26, 1970, the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) went into force, creating WIPO. WIPO is a United Nations agency that works to promote intellectual property rights in the international community. Today, 184 nations have signed the convention.

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US soldier arrested for killing John Wilkes Booth

On April 26, 1865, Sergeant Thomas P. Corbett was placed under technical arrest for killing John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.

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