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News German lawyer of Holocaust denier charged with incitement, using Nazi symbols
German lawyer of Holocaust denier charged with incitement, using Nazi symbols
Lisl Brunner
March 20, 2007 04:11:00 pm

A defense lawyer for German Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel has been charged with incitement, attempting to thwart a prosecution, and using banned Nazi symbols during the original trial of Zundel in 2005. According to prosecutors at...

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News Spain judge says Bush and Iraq war allies should face war crimes charges
Spain judge says Bush and Iraq war allies should face war crimes charges
Katerina Ossenova
March 20, 2007 02:16:00 pm

Baltasar Garzon , an investigating judge for Spain's National Court , said Tuesday that President George W. Bush and his allies eventually should face war crimes charges for their actions in Iraq....

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DOJ IG slams FBI for national security letter abuses at House hearing
Brett Murphy
March 20, 2007 01:58:00 pm

US Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn Fine told the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing on Tuesday that the confusion and abuses surrounding the use of National...

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News UK education authority allows schools to ban Muslim veils
UK education authority allows schools to ban Muslim veils
Katerina Ossenova
March 20, 2007 01:47:00 pm

The UK Department of Education and Skills issued school uniform guidelines Tuesday that allow schools to ban students from wearing Muslim veils if teachers believe the garments can affect safety or a student's...

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News Egyptian cleric in Italy CIA rendition unable to identify abductors
Egyptian cleric in Italy CIA rendition unable to identify abductors
Brett Murphy
March 20, 2007 01:25:00 pm

Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr said in an interview published Monday that he will be unable to identify the alleged CIA kidnappers who he says abducted him from Italy in...

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Appeals court denies class action status for Enron shareholders
Katerina Ossenova
March 20, 2007 01:14:00 pm

The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals withdrew class action status Tuesday from Enron shareholders who filed a shareholder derivative lawsuit in October 2001. US District Judge Melinda Harmon ...

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US Senate votes to cut attorney general interim hiring power
Brett Murphy
March 20, 2007 12:55:00 pm

The US Senate voted Tuesday to limit the power of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to name interim US attorneys, passing the Preserving United States Attorney Independence Act of 2007 by a...

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News Pakistan deputy AG resigns over chief judge suspension
Pakistan deputy AG resigns over chief judge suspension
Natalie Hrubos
March 20, 2007 12:42:00 pm

One of Pakistan's three deputy attorneys general resigned Tuesday, telling Reuters that the crisis over President Pervez Musharraf's March 9 suspension of Chief Justice Iktikhar Chaudhry for unspecified "misconduct" had made it...

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Military jury recommends 10-year sentence in Iraqi detainee deaths case
Natalie Hrubos
March 20, 2007 12:00:00 pm

A US military jury recommended Monday that 101st Airborne Staff Sgt. Raymond Girouard be sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted last week of three counts of negligent homicide for...

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Bangladesh to form human rights commission
Natalie Hrubos
March 20, 2007 11:21:00 am

The interim government of Bangladesh said Tuesday it plans to set up a national human rights commission in the country to deal with human rights problems there. Human rights groups have recently complained about extra-judicial killings...

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Dutch leader Johan de Witt killed by mob

The Grand Pensionary of Holland, Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis de Witt were lynched on August 20, 1672, after an angry mob took the two from a prison, where Cornelis was being held on charges of treason, and killed them both. William of Orange (later William III of England & Scotland) became Stadtholder of Holland a month before the killings and remained in the position until his death in 1702. Learn more about Johan de Witt from the Rijksmuseum.

UN Security Council resolution condemned Israeli declaration of all Jerusalem as capital

On August 20, 1980, the UN Security Council passed by 14-0 a resolution condemning an Israeli declaration that all of Jerusalem is its capital. The US abstained.

Economic Opportunity Act signed into law

On August 20, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Economic Opportunity Act. The bill approved $1 billion for social programs to combat poverty. It was central to President Johnson's Great Society legislation program. Learn more about President Johnson's War on Poverty from NPR.

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