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News Iran leader backs Islamic laws on women’s rights
Iran leader backs Islamic laws on women’s rights
Michael Sung
July 5, 2007 10:08:00 am

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that women's rights activists should not attempt to reconcile or replace the Sharia with international conventions or western ideals of women's rights, saying Wednesday...

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News Ethiopia military crackdown on rebels violating laws of war: HRW
Ethiopia military crackdown on rebels violating laws of war: HRW
Michael Sung
July 5, 2007 09:18:00 am

Ethiopian troops conducting counter-insurgency operations have violated international humanitarian law by burning homes and property and ordering civilians to vacate from at least a dozen villages in the eastern Somali region, Human Rights Watch (HRW) ...

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News Belgium court convicts Rwanda ex-military officer in 1994 killings
Belgium court convicts Rwanda ex-military officer in 1994 killings
Michael Sung
July 5, 2007 08:34:00 am

A Belgian court Wednesday convicted former Rwandan Army Major Bernard Ntuyahaga of premeditated homicide for Ntuyahaga's role in the murder of 10 Belgian peacekeepers tasked with providing security for then-Rwandan Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana in...

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News Russia formally rejects UK extradition request of Litvinenko poisoning suspect
Russia formally rejects UK extradition request of Litvinenko poisoning suspect
Michael Sung
July 5, 2007 07:57:00 am

Russian officials with the Office of the Prosecutor-General have formally denied a British extradition request for Andrei Lugovoy on the grounds that the Russian constitution forbids the extradition of its...

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News Iraq draft oil law stalls after Sunnis, Kurds, Sadr Shiites balk
Iraq draft oil law stalls after Sunnis, Kurds, Sadr Shiites balk
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
July 4, 2007 10:19:00 pm

A contentious draft Iraqi oil law approved Tuesday by Iraq's cabinet stalled on its way to parliament Wednesday after Sunni and Kurd politicians and Shiite lawmakers associated with radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr objected to...

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News Malaysia judge rejects Anwar defamation case
Malaysia judge rejects Anwar defamation case
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
July 4, 2007 09:03:00 pm

A Malaysian judge Wednesday rejected a bid by former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to sue former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad for defamation in connection with renewed allegations that Anwar is a homosexual. Mahathir dismissed...

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News New UK PM Brown outlines planned constitutional changes, floats bill of rights
New UK PM Brown outlines planned constitutional changes, floats bill of rights
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
July 4, 2007 10:10:00 am

In his first statement to the UK House of Commons Tuesday, new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown laid out a series of proposed constitutional reforms he said were designed to make British government...

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News Arizona undocumented aliens hiring act [AZ House]
Arizona undocumented aliens hiring act [AZ House]
July 3, 2007 10:19:00 pm

Legal Arizona Workers Act, signed into law by Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, July 2, 2007 . Read the full...

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News Missouri executioner identity confidentiality bill [MO House]
Missouri executioner identity confidentiality bill [MO House]
July 3, 2007 08:32:00 pm

An Act to repeal section 546.720, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to administration of the death penalty, with penalty provisions (HB 820), signed into law by Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt, June 30, 2007 [prohibiting...

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News Thailand interim government proposes bill to maintain army power
Thailand interim government proposes bill to maintain army power
Melissa Bancroft
July 3, 2007 08:30:00 pm

The interim government of Thailand has proposed an internal security bill that would allow the military to remain a political force even after the election of a civilian-run government, according to critics Tuesday. The proposal would...

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Warsaw Pact signed

On May 14, 1955, seven communist countries in Eastern Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland Romania, and the USSR) signed the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (Warsaw Pact), a mutual defense accord created to counter NATO in the West. East Germany joined in 1959. Albania left in 1968.

Delegates gathered in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention

On May 14, 1787, delegates from each state begin to arrive in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention.

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