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News UK crime review [UK Home Office]
UK crime review [UK Home Office]
December 25, 2006 08:17:00 pm

Policy Review: Crime, Justice and Cohesion, UK Home Office, November 2006 ....

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News Iran parliament votes to review IAEA cooperation after UN sanctions approved
Iran parliament votes to review IAEA cooperation after UN sanctions approved
Kate Heneroty
December 25, 2006 01:12:00 pm

Iran's parliament has voted to review the terms of the country's cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) , the UN's nuclear watchdog, following a weekend approval of sanctions ]JURIST...

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News US review boards cleared 46 Guantanamo detainees for transfer home in 2006
US review boards cleared 46 Guantanamo detainees for transfer home in 2006
Kate Heneroty
December 25, 2006 12:43:00 pm

US Defense Department Administrative Review Boards (ARB) reviewing the status of prisoners held by the US at Guantanamo Bay cleared 46 detainees for transfer to the custody of their home countries, according to new...

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News UK crime rate rise detailed, prison population surge predicted in leaked report
UK crime rate rise detailed, prison population surge predicted in leaked report
Kate Heneroty
December 25, 2006 11:11:00 am

A recent UK Home Office report prepared for Prime Minister Tony Blair details the country's first increase in crime since the mid-1990s and predicts a massive 25% increase...

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News China parliament starts debating seventh draft of private property law
China parliament starts debating seventh draft of private property law
Natalie Hrubos
December 24, 2006 11:04:00 am

China's National People's Congress started debate Sunday on the seventh draft of a landmark private property bill intended to protect state, collective and private property . If passed, the legislation will be first bill...

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News US soldier who disputed Iraq war legality released early from military prison
US soldier who disputed Iraq war legality released early from military prison
Natalie Hrubos
December 24, 2006 10:31:00 am

Former US Army Sergeant Ricky Clousing , a paratrooper and interpreter who disputed the legality of the war in Iraq, was released Saturday from a military prison where he was serving a three-month sentence after...

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News Appeals court suspends order for FEMA to continue Katrina housing payments
Appeals court suspends order for FEMA to continue Katrina housing payments
Natalie Hrubos
December 24, 2006 10:00:00 am

A federal appeals court Friday suspended a November order by US District Judge Richard Leon requiring the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to reinstate certain housing payments to Hurricane Katrina ...

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UN Security Council imposes nuclear sanctions on Iran
Caitlin Price
December 23, 2006 02:30:00 pm

The UN Security Council voted 15-0 Saturday to impose its first sanctions on Iran for continuing to enrich uranium past an August 31 deadline imposed by Security Council Resolution 1696 ....

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News ICC seeking UN peacekeepers’ help in arresting Uganda rebel leader
ICC seeking UN peacekeepers’ help in arresting Uganda rebel leader
Caitlin Price
December 23, 2006 01:24:00 pm

The International Criminal Court (ICC) will enlist the help of UN peacekeepers in arresting Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony , according to a Reuters report Saturday. A document dated December 8 posted...

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News Iraqis launch Oil-For-Food lawsuit in US court
Iraqis launch Oil-For-Food lawsuit in US court
Robert DeVries
December 23, 2006 11:51:00 am

Several Iraqi citizens sued a leading European bank and Australia's wheat exporting agency in New York federal court Friday for corporate misconduct facilitating the corruption of the Iraq Oil-for-Food program which bilked Iraqis out of humanitarian...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Berlin Airlift ends

The Berlin Airlift, a US-UK effort to circumvent a Soviet blockade of allied-occupied West Berlin, ended on September 30, 1949. After the Soviet Union cut off supply access to West Berlin, the US and UK sent necessities to the enclave by air. The effort ended four months after the Soviet Union ended the Berlin blockade. Learn more about the Berlin Airlift.

22 Nazi leaders convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg

On September 30, 1946, the international military tribunal constituted by the Allied powers in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes committed during World War II.

Merck pulls Vioxx from drug market and faces class actions suit

On September 30, 2004, the pharmaceutical company, Merck, pulled its arthritis drug, Vioxx from the worldwide market, due to strokes and heart attacks in patients, but the move did not stop over 45,000 former users and their families from suing Merck. The plaintiffs, however, have struggled to collect damages awarded to them in successful litigations. Learn more about the plaintiffs in these suits from the New York Times.

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