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News Saddam verdict elicits mixed reactions
Saddam verdict elicits mixed reactions
Leslie Schulman
November 5, 2006 12:48:00 pm

News of the guilty verdict and death sentence handed down for Saddam Hussein Sunday has elicited mixed reactions in Iraq and abroad. About 1000 protestors marched in Saddam's home town of Tikrit,...

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News Turkish PM hears suggestions on reforming state slander penal code provision
Turkish PM hears suggestions on reforming state slander penal code provision
Caitlin Price
November 5, 2006 11:37:00 am

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Sunday with representatives of nearly a dozen non-governmental organizations to discuss possible reforms to the controversial Article 301 of Turkey's penal code, which criminalizes the denigration...

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News Taiwan president denies embezzlement, pledges to resign if first lady convicted
Taiwan president denies embezzlement, pledges to resign if first lady convicted
Michael Sung
November 5, 2006 09:59:00 am

Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian delivered a nationally-televised address Sunday denying allegations that he and first lady Wu Shu-chen have been embezzling money from state funds and pledging to resign if his wife is...

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News Saddam sentenced to death in Dujail crimes against humanity case
Saddam sentenced to death in Dujail crimes against humanity case
Jeannie Shawl
November 5, 2006 07:27:00 am

Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants were convicted and sentenced to death by hanging Sunday for crimes against humanity committed in the Iraqi town of Dujail [JURIST...

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News Libya AIDS trial verdict to be announced in December
Libya AIDS trial verdict to be announced in December
Ned Mulcahy
November 4, 2006 04:25:00 pm

The judge presiding at the Libyan trial of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian physician for allegedly infecting over 400 children with the HIV virus announced Saturday that the verdict in the case will be rendered...

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News Pakistan judge forbids Muslim veils in courtroom
Pakistan judge forbids Muslim veils in courtroom
Ryan Olden
November 4, 2006 03:17:00 pm

A top Pakistani judge has forbidden female lawyers to wear the Muslim hijab (veil) in his courtroom, according to the Saturday edition of Pakistan's Daily Times newspaper. The Times quotes Chief Justice...

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News Lawyers fan out for US mid-term elections
Lawyers fan out for US mid-term elections
Ryan Olden
November 4, 2006 03:16:00 pm

Thousands of lawyers working for political parties, government and interest groups are preparing to go into action across the United States Tuesday when Americans vote in mid-term elections. At stake is control of Congress and a series...

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News DOJ trying to block legal access to detainee who could disclose CIA techniques
DOJ trying to block legal access to detainee who could disclose CIA techniques
Ned Mulcahy
November 4, 2006 03:08:00 pm

The US Department of Justice is attempting to block lawyers' access to Majid Khan, one of 14 "high value" prisoners previously held at a CIA secret prison but recently transferred to the...

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News Rights groups sue to block local California anti-immigrant ordinance
Rights groups sue to block local California anti-immigrant ordinance
Caitlin Price
November 4, 2006 11:45:00 am

The ACLU, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) , and other rights groups filed a lawsuit Friday attempting to block an ordinance in Escondido, California , designed to prevent landlords...

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News Guantanamo commander says detainees no longer forcibly interrogated
Guantanamo commander says detainees no longer forcibly interrogated
Geoff Leung
November 4, 2006 11:39:00 am

US Rear Adm. Harry Harris , chief of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, has said that compulsory interrogations are no longer employed to elicit information from detainees due to their ineffectiveness as compared to "rapport...

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First former Warsaw Pact countries join NATO

On March 12, 1999, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland became the first former members of the Warsaw Pact join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Read the NATO accession treaties for the Czech Republic, the Republic of Hungary, and the Republic of Poland.

Janet Reno sworn in as first female US Attorney General

On March 12, 1993, Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female US Attorney General. Learn more about Janet Reno from the US Department of Justice Attorney General's website as it stood on November 9, 2000.

Mahatma Gandhi begins Salt March

Indian independence advocate Mahatma Gandhi and 78 others began a 3.5-week-long march to the Arabian Sea on March 12, 1930 to defy monopolistic colonial laws prohibiting the collection of salt by Indians. The demonstration exemplified Gandhi's strategy of Satyagraha. The march ended with thousands joining in in other cities, Gandhi being briefly jailed and then granted a seat at the 1930-1932 India Round Table Conference in London. Learn more about the Salt March.

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