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News UK Home Office: terror investigation top priority, two more arrested in Scotland
UK Home Office: terror investigation top priority, two more arrested in Scotland
Gabriel Haboubi
July 2, 2007 12:13:00 pm

On Monday, UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith told the British Parliament that investigating last week's terror incidents in London and at the Glasgow International Airport are the government's top priority , and...

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News Australia may compensate immigrants detained illegally
Australia may compensate immigrants detained illegally
Michael Sung
July 2, 2007 11:33:00 am

Kevin Andrews , Australia's minister for immigration and citizenship, said Monday that the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) is considering remedial action , including providing financial compensation to 247 individuals found to be wrongfully...

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News Iran high court hears appeal on reopening probe into Canadian journalist death
Iran high court hears appeal on reopening probe into Canadian journalist death
Michael Sung
July 2, 2007 10:54:00 am

The Iranian Supreme Court held a hearing Sunday in the case of murdered Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi on an appeal of a lower court order that the case be reopened. Kazemi's family argued that...

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News Leahy to seek contempt of Congress charges if White House defies subpoenas
Leahy to seek contempt of Congress charges if White House defies subpoenas
Michael Sung
July 2, 2007 10:04:00 am

US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said Sunday that he is prepared to initiate a Senate vote to hold officials in the White House, the Vice President's office, and the Department of Justice in contempt of Congress...

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News Palestinian rocket attacks, Israeli response violate laws of war: HRW
Palestinian rocket attacks, Israeli response violate laws of war: HRW
Michael Sung
July 2, 2007 08:53:00 am

Palestinian rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and Israeli military reprisals "constitute serious violations of the laws of war" , according to a report released Sunday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . The report found that...

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News New US state laws take effect with fiscal year
New US state laws take effect with fiscal year
Natalie Hrubos
July 1, 2007 01:35:00 pm

New laws took effect in many US states Sunday with the start of the fiscal year on July 1, including a law in Virginia that requires convicted sex offenders to register e-mail addresses with the state,...

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News UK police arrest fifth suspect in weekend terror plots
UK police arrest fifth suspect in weekend terror plots
Natalie Hrubos
July 1, 2007 12:43:00 pm

UK police arrested a fifth suspect near Glasgow International Airport Sunday in connection with three terror incidents over the weekend. On Saturday, a flaming Jeep crashed into the front entrance of the...

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News Israel high court puts Katsav plea agreement on hold pending challenge
Israel high court puts Katsav plea agreement on hold pending challenge
Natalie Hrubos
July 1, 2007 12:06:00 pm

The Israeli Supreme Court put President Moshe Katsav's plea agreement on hold for 24 hours Sunday to entertain a legal challenge by a Israeli civil rights group Movement for Quality Government in Israel . Katsav [official...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

First US life insurance company incorporated

On January 11, 1759, America's first life insurance company was incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of Presbyterian Ministers was established by Presbyterians to support the families of their ministers. In 1988, the company's name was changed to the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund. The company later became Covenant Life Insurance Company before being acquired by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company in 2002. Read a history of the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund from the Pennsylvania Historical Society.

Treaty ended Anglo-American claims, courts in China

On January 11, 1943, the United States and Great Britain relinquished by treaty their extraterritorial claims in China. This abandonment effectively ended the jurisdiction of the extraterritorial United States Court for China (established 1906) and the British Supreme Court in China. Read more about the United States Court for China, which one scholar has called "probably the strangest federal tribunal ever constituted by Congress," in a short online history of the US Ninth Circuit.

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