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News Thailand protesters rally against political ban of ex-PM, dissolution of party
Thailand protesters rally against political ban of ex-PM, dissolution of party
Michael Sung
June 1, 2007 01:26:00 pm

Approximately a thousand demonstrators gathered in Bangkok Thursday to protest a Wednesday order by the Constitutional Court of Thailand banning former Prime Minister Thaksin Sinawatra and 110 other Thai Rak Thai...

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News New China bankruptcy law takes effect
New China bankruptcy law takes effect
Michael Sung
June 1, 2007 12:41:00 pm

China's new "Enterprise Bankruptcy" law came into effect Friday, officially introducing broad sweeping regulations governing the resolution of outstanding business debts for the first time in China , which is gradually amending its laws to address the...

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News Assisted suicide doctor Kevorkian released on parole after 8 years in prison
Assisted suicide doctor Kevorkian released on parole after 8 years in prison
Michael Sung
June 1, 2007 11:56:00 am

Jack Kevorkian , a former doctor convicted of second degree murder for assisting the suicide of a patient with Lou Gehrig's disease, was released from prison in Michigan Friday after serving 8 years. Kevorkian, who will remain on...

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News Arrested aide to Mladic transferred to Hague war crimes court
Arrested aide to Mladic transferred to Hague war crimes court
Michael Sung
June 1, 2007 11:31:00 am

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Friday confirmed the transfer to The Hague of newly arrested Bosnian Serb war crimes indictee Zdravko Tolimir . Tolimir, a former...

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News Federal court dismisses Fannie Mae shareholders lawsuit
Federal court dismisses Fannie Mae shareholders lawsuit
Michael Sung
June 1, 2007 11:00:00 am

The US District Court for the District of Colombia Thursday dismissed a derivative lawsuit filed by shareholders of home financial services corporation Fannie Mae to force former CEO Franklin D. Raines, former CFO J. Timothy...

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News Myanmar detention of democracy advocate against international law: UN rights body
Myanmar detention of democracy advocate against international law: UN rights body
Michael Sung
June 1, 2007 10:18:00 am

Myanmar's extended detention of democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi violates the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights , the UN...

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News Poland court sentences 15 riot police for 1981 martial law protest killings
Poland court sentences 15 riot police for 1981 martial law protest killings
Michael Sung
June 1, 2007 09:51:00 am

A Polish court Thursday sentenced 15 riot police officers involved in the 1981 shooting deaths of nine coal miners, handing down sentences ranging from eleven years to at least two and half years in prison. The coal miners were...

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News Senate intelligence panel questions value of CIA secret detentions
Senate intelligence panel questions value of CIA secret detentions
Michael Sung
June 1, 2007 08:52:00 am

The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence questioned whether the secret CIA detention and interrogation program "is the best means to obtain a full and reliable intelligence debriefing of a detainee" in a report published...

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News DOD identifies Guantanamo suicide detainee
DOD identifies Guantanamo suicide detainee
Michael Sung
June 1, 2007 08:00:00 am

US military officials Thursday identified a deceased Saudi Arabian detainee who apparently committed suicide at the military prison Wednesday as Abdul Rahman Ma'ath Thafir al-Amri. Joint Task Force-Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) said in press release...

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WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

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On April 24, 1800, US President John Adams approved $5,000 to fund the establishment of the US Library of Congress. Learn more about the history of the US Library of Congress.

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