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News Russian prosecutors charge officer in conscript death
Russian prosecutors charge officer in conscript death
Leslie Schulman
August 29, 2007 05:01:00 pm

Russian prosecutors filed charges Wednesday against a Russian officer accused of fatally beating a conscript. Cpl. Vadim Kalinin was charged with inflicting "deliberate bodily harm resulting in death" on Russian conscript Pvt. Sergei Sinkonen after Sinkonen's death ...

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News Hezbollah organizing lawsuits against Israel for Lebanon war reparations
Hezbollah organizing lawsuits against Israel for Lebanon war reparations
Michael Sung
August 29, 2007 02:30:00 pm

Hezbollah is organizing lawsuits against Israel seeking reparations for damage caused during the summer 2006 Lebanon conflict . Hezbollah legal affairs director Ibrahim Awada told Syrian media last week that Hezbollah...

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News UK minister rejects calls for EU reform treaty referendum
UK minister rejects calls for EU reform treaty referendum
Michael Sung
August 29, 2007 01:50:00 pm

UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David Miliband Tuesday rejected calls for a general referendum on the proposed EU Reform Treaty , instead insisting that the treaty is "different...in absolute...

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News Sudan still not cooperating on war crimes arrests: ICC prosecutor
Sudan still not cooperating on war crimes arrests: ICC prosecutor
Brett Murphy
August 29, 2007 01:33:00 pm

Sudan has failed to cooperate with the arrests of two suspects wanted for allegedly committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Tuesday. Moreno-Ocampo told...

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News Indicted ex-Khmer Rouge prison chief appeals pre-trial detention
Indicted ex-Khmer Rouge prison chief appeals pre-trial detention
Brett Murphy
August 29, 2007 12:46:00 pm

Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Khek Iev , also known as Duch, has appealed his pre-trial detention, Duch's lawyers said Wednesday. Lawyers filed the appeal last week asking that Duch be released on bail, but have declined...

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News Abu Ghraib intelligence officer reprimanded, spared jail time
Abu Ghraib intelligence officer reprimanded, spared jail time
Brett Murphy
August 29, 2007 12:09:00 pm

US Army Lt. Col. Steven Jordan was reprimanded Wednesday following his conviction earlier this week for disobeying an order not to discuss the investigation into allegations of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib...

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News Chile high court delays decision on extradition of Peru ex-president Fujimori
Chile high court delays decision on extradition of Peru ex-president Fujimori
Brett Murphy
August 29, 2007 11:40:00 am

The Supreme Court of Chile put the question of whether to extradite former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on hold Tuesday as the court could not come to an agreement on further action in the...

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News Chile Supreme Court upholds life sentence for Pinochet-era intelligence chief
Chile Supreme Court upholds life sentence for Pinochet-era intelligence chief
Brett Murphy
August 29, 2007 11:08:00 am

The Supreme Court of Chile on Tuesday upheld the life sentence for former National Intelligence Centre (CNI) director General Hugo Salas Wenzel for his involvement in the murder of 12 suspected opposition members in 1987....

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News Truscott death penalty verdict reversal [Ontario CA]
Truscott death penalty verdict reversal [Ontario CA]
August 29, 2007 10:35:00 am

Her Majesty the Queen v. Steven Murray Truscott, Ontario Court of Appeal, August 28, 2007 . Read the full...

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News White House considering five names in Gonzales replacement search
White House considering five names in Gonzales replacement search
Brett Murphy
August 29, 2007 10:28:00 am

The White House has compiled a list of the top five candidates to replace US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as head of the Department of Justice, an anonymous White House official told AP Tuesday....

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28 countries unite against Axis Powers

On January 2, 1942, twenty-eight countries formally agreed not to make peace with the Axis Powers separately. At the time, all twenty-eight were fighting against the Axis as Allies in World War II. The agreement was part of the Declaration by the United Nations, signed the previous day. In December of 1941, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to this group of allies as the "United Nations."

US government agents arrested thousands in Palmer raids

On January 2, 1920, over 500 government agents acting on the direction of US Attorney General Mitchell Palmer carried out a massive counter-terror operation in 33 US cities, arresting between six and ten thousand aliens suspected of Communism, radicalism and anarchism. The "Palmer Raids" and the detentions and deportation proceedings that followed them were denounced by a number of prominent lawyers and judges who later established the American Civil Liberties Union. Read an excerpt from Attorney General Palmer's 1920 article, The Case Against the 'Reds' and learn more about the Palmer Raids and the Red Scare of 1919-20.

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