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News Class action plaintiff pleads guilty in Milberg Weiss kickback scheme
Class action plaintiff pleads guilty in Milberg Weiss kickback scheme
Josh Camson
October 19, 2007 02:52:00 pm

Seymour Lazar pleaded guilty Thursday to obstruction of justice, subscribing to a false tax return and making a false declaration for his role in the Milberg Weiss kickback scheme where the firm is accused of paying up...

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News Georgia Supreme Court stays execution of death row inmate
Georgia Supreme Court stays execution of death row inmate
Patrick Porter
October 19, 2007 02:00:00 pm

The Georgia Supreme Court granted a stay of execution Thursday to convicted killer Jack Alderman. The death row inmate was scheduled to die Friday at 7PM ET and had already selected his last meal....

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News Camp Cropper ex-military police chief gets 2-year prison sentence
Camp Cropper ex-military police chief gets 2-year prison sentence
Patrick Porter
October 19, 2007 01:06:00 pm

Former US military police commander Lt. Col. William Steele was sentenced to two years in prison Friday after being convicted of unauthorized possession of classified documents, failing to obey an order, and conduct unbecoming an officer by...

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News UK lawmakers investigating allegations of CIA prison on UK Indian Ocean island
UK lawmakers investigating allegations of CIA prison on UK Indian Ocean island
Jaime Jansen
October 19, 2007 11:04:00 am

UK lawmakers will investigate whether the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has secretly held terror suspects on a sovereign British territory in the Indian Ocean, the Guardian reported Friday. The House of Commons' Foreign Affairs Committee...

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News Serbia arrests four ex-paramilitary members suspected of Kosovo war crimes
Serbia arrests four ex-paramilitary members suspected of Kosovo war crimes
Jaime Jansen
October 19, 2007 10:20:00 am

Serbian police arrested four members of the Scorpions paramilitary group suspected of crimes committed in Kosovo during Serbia's 1998-1999 war with ethnic Albanian separatists, the Serbian Interior Ministry announced Friday. Several members...

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News Canada government stalling Afghan detainee torture case: Amnesty
Canada government stalling Afghan detainee torture case: Amnesty
Jaime Jansen
October 19, 2007 09:38:00 am

The Canadian government is trying to derail a lawsuit over whether the Canadian Army in Afghanistan is transferring custody of detainees to Afghan forces to face torture by bogging it down with a flurry of technical arguments,...

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News Argentina ex-coast guard officer on trial for ‘Dirty War’ torture
Argentina ex-coast guard officer on trial for ‘Dirty War’ torture
Jaime Jansen
October 19, 2007 09:10:00 am

Former Argentinian coast guard officer Hector Febres went on trial Thursday on charges of kidnapping and torturing four people at the Navy Mechanics School during Argentina's Dirty War . If convicted, Febres...

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News Israel military commander reprimanded in human shield case
Israel military commander reprimanded in human shield case
Jaime Jansen
October 19, 2007 08:41:00 am

Israeli military Brigadier General Yair Golan received a reprimand Thursday after an investigation by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) into allegations that Golan improperly used Palestinians as human shields. Golan, commander of the...

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News Camp Cropper ex-military police chief found not guilty of aiding enemy
Camp Cropper ex-military police chief found not guilty of aiding enemy
Jaime Jansen
October 19, 2007 08:04:00 am

The first military officer to face court-martial for aiding the enemy since the 2003 Iraq invasion was found not guilty Friday of aiding the enemy by providing a cellular phone to detainees. Former US military...

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EU leaders agree to EU Reform Treaty text
Mike Rosen-Molina
October 18, 2007 08:38:00 pm

European Union (EU) leaders reached agreement on the text of a proposed EU Reform Treaty at a summit in Lisbon early Friday local time, working through last minute objections by Poland and Italy....

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South Africa born

On May 31, 1910, the Union of South Africa was created. Exactly fifty-one years later in 1961, the Republic of South Africa was born. Learn more about the history of South Africa from the country's government.

Tulsa race riot began

On May 31, 1921, the Tulsa race riot was touched off after a black elevator operator was alleged to have attacked a white woman in an elevator in downtown Tulsa. Armed whites attacked, burned and looted the local black business community of Greenwood in violence that killed more than 300 people and destroyed more than 1200 homes. Learn more about the Tulsa race riot. A special commission set up by the Oklahoma legislature decades afterward submitted this report [PDF] on the riot in 2001.

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