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News Canada anti-terror law discriminates against Muslims: lawyer for terror suspect
Canada anti-terror law discriminates against Muslims: lawyer for terror suspect
Jaime Jansen
July 11, 2006 01:56:00 pm

A lawyer representing one of 17 Canadians arrested on terror charges in June argued Monday in an Ontario court that Canada's anti-terror legislation discriminates because it focuses only on "brown" Muslim and Arab groups...

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News Bush renews call for Senate to pass line-item veto bill
Bush renews call for Senate to pass line-item veto bill
Joe Shaulis
July 11, 2006 01:48:00 pm

President Bush again urged the US Senate on Tuesday to pass legislation allowing him to use a line-item veto to weed out what the White House has labeled wasteful spending. In White House remarks...

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News EU court finds former France PM breached obligations while European Commissioner
EU court finds former France PM breached obligations while European Commissioner
Jaime Jansen
July 11, 2006 12:59:00 pm

The European Court of Justice Tuesday found former French prime minister Edith Cresson breached the obligations of her office by indulging in favoritism and abuse of office when she served as a...

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News Geneva Conventions Common Article 3 US compliance memo [US DOD]
Geneva Conventions Common Article 3 US compliance memo [US DOD]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
July 11, 2006 12:46:00 pm

Application of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions to the Treatment of Detainees in the Department of Defense, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England, July 7, 2006 [directing that all DOD personnel adhere to Article 3 standards on...

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News China offers non-binding UN resolution on North Korea after rejecting Japan proposal
China offers non-binding UN resolution on North Korea after rejecting Japan proposal
Jaime Jansen
July 11, 2006 12:05:00 pm

China has rejected a strongly worded UN Security Council official website] resolution responding to North Korea's missile launches earlier this month, instead proposing a mild resolution to encourage North Korea not to launch test-missiles....

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News Retired military officers criticize federal bench nomination of top DOD counsel
Retired military officers criticize federal bench nomination of top DOD counsel
Jaime Jansen
July 11, 2006 11:29:00 am

A group of twenty retired military officers has submitted a letter to the US Senate Judiciary Committee expressing "deep concern" about the fitness of William Haynes II , the current Pentagon general counsel,...

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News Former Khmer Rouge leader facing genocide probe leaves town at night
Former Khmer Rouge leader facing genocide probe leaves town at night
Jaime Jansen
July 11, 2006 10:08:00 am

Khieu Samphan , the former head of state of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime, left his home overnight and headed toward a neighboring province, just hours after prosecutors began compiling evidence against former Khmer...

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News Colorado legislature passes bill requiring proof of citizenship for public benefits
Colorado legislature passes bill requiring proof of citizenship for public benefits
Jaime Jansen
July 11, 2006 09:18:00 am

Colorado state lawmakers passed a bill Monday that will force residents receiving state or federal benefits to prove their citizenship in order to continue receiving aid, in what some are calling one of the toughest...

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News Saddam judge adjourns trial to resolve defense boycott
Saddam judge adjourns trial to resolve defense boycott
Jaime Jansen
July 11, 2006 08:57:00 am

Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman , presiding over the Saddam Hussein trial , on Tuesday adjourned the trial until July 24 in a bid to give Hussein and his lawyers time to return from a boycott of proceedings....

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News Killed Russian terrorist was mastermind behind Beslan plot
Killed Russian terrorist was mastermind behind Beslan plot
Jaime Jansen
July 11, 2006 08:50:00 am

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) killed the self-confessed mastermind of the 2004 Beslan school siege along with 12 other militants in an early morning special operation Monday, according...

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European Court ruled against hitting schoolchildren in the UK

On February 25, 1982, in Campbell & Cosans v. The United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that parents can prevent teachers in the United Kingdom from striking their schoolchildren. At the time of the court's decision, the UK was the only Western European nation that permitted corporal punishment in schools.

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