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News Chinese judges charged in corruption scandal
Chinese judges charged in corruption scandal
Lisl Brunner
October 27, 2006 10:44:00 am

Four Chinese judges are facing trials for accepting bribes to fix the outcomes of cases in the province of Anhui . The charges coincide with statements by Chinese President Hu Jintao -...

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UN votes to begin work on global arms trade treaty despite US opposition
Lisl Brunner
October 27, 2006 10:14:00 am

A UN General Assembly committee voted Thursday to begin work on a new treaty aiming to set uniform standards for global arms trade despite vocal opposition from the United States. The treaty would be directed at securing international cooperation...

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News Ethiopia government confirms election protest deaths, insists security response legal
Ethiopia government confirms election protest deaths, insists security response legal
Lisl Brunner
October 27, 2006 09:46:00 am

The government of Ethiopia has confirmed a report made last week that its security forces killed 193 people during election protests in May and in November last year. Mekonnen Disasa, a member...

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News Israel high court rejects petition against border barrier
Israel high court rejects petition against border barrier
Lisl Brunner
October 27, 2006 09:14:00 am

The Supreme Court of Israel Thursday rejected an appeal by Palestinian villagers who claim that a 6-kilometer stretch of the border wall currently being built will separate them from their...

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News UN Rwanda genocide court to keep acquitted suspects with nowhere to go
UN Rwanda genocide court to keep acquitted suspects with nowhere to go
Kate Heneroty
October 27, 2006 08:44:00 am

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is keeping 4 acquitted genocide suspects in custody because no other countries were willing to accept them, the court announced Friday. The suspects acquitted by the court...

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Mexico president calls US border wall ’embarrassment’
Kate Heneroty
October 27, 2006 08:22:00 am

Mexican President Vicente Fox Thursday criticized the Secure Fence Act of 2006 signed earlier in the day by President Bush. Fox called the legislation to build a 700-mile fence [JURIST...

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Ohio voter ID law temporarily suspended for absentee ballots
Kate Heneroty
October 27, 2006 07:53:00 am

US District Judge Algenon Marbley granted a temporary restraining order Thursday blocking enforcement of Ohio's voter ID law as it applies to absentee ballots because Ohio's 88 counties are applying...

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Bank denies holding Pinochet gold stash
Kate Heneroty
October 27, 2006 07:26:00 am

The Chilean office of the HSBC bank said Thursday that it has no accounts in the name of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and that bank documents detailing Pinochet's alleged $160 million gold fortune...

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News France jails Moroccan said to have ties to 9/11 hijackers
France jails Moroccan said to have ties to 9/11 hijackers
Gabriel Haboubi
October 26, 2006 07:29:00 pm

A Moroccan believed to have ties to two figures connected to the September 11 attacks was sentenced to nine years in prison Thursday after a French criminal court found him guilty of "associating with wrongdoers in...

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Special prosecutor examines first Libby defense witness in CIA leak case
Gabriel Haboubi
October 26, 2006 07:15:00 pm

US special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent approximately three hours Thursday cross-examining the first witness presented by lawyers representing former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby . The witness, psychologist...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Stamp Act passed by British Parliament

On March 22, 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, a revenue-raising measure under which all pamphlets, almanacs, newspapers, bonds, notes, leases, insurance policies, and legal papers had thenceforward to be issued on stamped paper that could only be purchased from the king's officers. American colonists objected to the Act, saying that Parliament did not have the right to impose duties and taxes on a people who were not represented in the House of Commons. Review the terms of the Stamp Act and see the resolution of the colonies' Stamp Act Congress of October 1765, petitioning for repeal.

Arab League formed

On March 22, 1945, the League of Arab States was formed in Cairo, Egypt to promote the cultural and political interests of the Arab World. Since then, the original six-nation roster of Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Transjordan (now Jordan), Lebanon, and Iraq has now expanded to 22 member states. Read the Charter of the League of Arab States and a profile of the Arab League from the BBC.

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