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News Former Guantanamo detainees returned to Afghanistan allege US abuse
Former Guantanamo detainees returned to Afghanistan allege US abuse
Gabriel Haboubi
October 12, 2006 06:51:00 pm

Sixteen Afghan men were reunited with their families Thursday after being released by the US military from four years of detention in Guantanamo Bay . The men denied links to Islamic terror groups and...

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News States loosen felon voting restrictions
States loosen felon voting restrictions
Ryan Olden
October 12, 2006 06:24:00 pm

Sixteen states have in recent years made it easier for convicted felons to vote, according to new report by The Sentencing Project . Lifetime voting bans in Iowa , Nebraska, and New Mexico have...

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News German judge says 9/11 suspect could face third trial
German judge says 9/11 suspect could face third trial
Katerina Ossenova
October 12, 2006 04:00:00 pm

Moroccan-born Mounir al-Motassadeq , who was convicted by a German court last year for his involvement with the Sept. 11 attacks , could face a third trial, a judge in Germany's...

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News 80 Guantanamo detainees could face military commission trials
80 Guantanamo detainees could face military commission trials
Katerina Ossenova
October 12, 2006 03:38:00 pm

As many as 80 Guantanamo Bay detainees could face trial before military commissions, a US State Department legal adviser said Thursday. John Bellinger also said President Bush will sign Congress' recently-passed military...

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News DOJ charges ex-hedge fund managers with fraud
DOJ charges ex-hedge fund managers with fraud
Katerina Ossenova
October 12, 2006 03:31:00 pm

US Attorney Patrick Meehan filed an indictment Thursday against stockbrokers Anthony Postiglione, Jr. and William Lennon, co-founders of Foutainhead Fund LP, alleging that they defrauded investors out of almost $2 million. Both men...

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News UK man pleads guilty to conspiracy in US/UK bombings plot
UK man pleads guilty to conspiracy in US/UK bombings plot
Jaime Jansen
October 12, 2006 11:28:00 am

Dhiren Barot, a British man accused of planning a series of bombs on US and British targets, pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiracy to murder for his role in the Gas Limos Project bombing scheme and...

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News UK Foreign Office calls Guantanamo ‘unacceptable’ in human rights report
UK Foreign Office calls Guantanamo ‘unacceptable’ in human rights report
Jaime Jansen
October 12, 2006 10:58:00 am

British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on Thursday called the "continuing detention without a fair trial" at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay "unacceptable in terms of human rights" and "ineffective in...

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News Guantanamo detainees lose bid to force UK government to help with release
Guantanamo detainees lose bid to force UK government to help with release
Katerina Ossenova
October 12, 2006 10:47:00 am

The UK Court of Appeal Thursday upheld an earlier High Court ruling and denied a bid by the families of three Guantanamo Bay detainees who were UK residents prior to their...

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News French assembly passes controversial Armenian genocide law opposed by Turkey
French assembly passes controversial Armenian genocide law opposed by Turkey
Katerina Ossenova
October 12, 2006 10:40:00 am

The French lower house of parliament, the National Assembly , approved an internationally-controversial bill Thursday that imposes monetary penalties and jail time on anyone who denies that there was an Armenian genocide early in...

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News Turkish novelist subject of state slander case wins Nobel Prize
Turkish novelist subject of state slander case wins Nobel Prize
Jaime Jansen
October 12, 2006 10:22:00 am

Turkey's most prominent writer, Orhan Pamuk , won the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday for his work examining the role of Islam in society. Pamuk, a visiting professor at Columbia University, said he...

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Slave revolt leader Nat Turner arrested

US slave revolt leader Nat Turner was arrested in Virginia on October 30, 1831. Turner, inspired by a religious vision, led a rebellion in August of that year which resulted in the deaths of 55 white people, including the family who enslaved Turner. White mobs later killed between 36 and 102 Black people in retaliation for the attacks. After his October capture, Turner became one of 55 people to be executed by Virginia in connection with the rebellion. Learn more about Nat Turner and Turner's Rebellion.

Russians granted basic civil liberties

On October 30, 1905 [October 17 in the Julian Calendar], Tsar Nicholas II granted Russians basic civil liberties in the October Manifesto.

Roosevelt approves $1 billion in aid to WWII Allies under Lend-Lease Act

On October 30, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt approved $1 billion in wartime aid to the Allies under the Lend-Lease Act. America did not formally enter World War II until December of 1941, but the US Government nonetheless provided crucial aid to the Allied Powers from the passage of the Lend-Lease Act in March of 1941 through the end of the war. The Lend-Lease Agreement between the US and the UK was formalized the following year.

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