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News Alleged US head of Sri Lankan terrorist group pleads not guilty to charges
Alleged US head of Sri Lankan terrorist group pleads not guilty to charges
Michael Sung
June 5, 2007 12:07:00 pm

Karunakaran Kandasamy, the alleged director of the American branch of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) , and four other defendants pleaded not in US federal court guilty Monday to charges of providing material support...

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News Libby sentenced to 30 months in prison for blocking CIA leak probe
Libby sentenced to 30 months in prison for blocking CIA leak probe
Michael Sung
June 5, 2007 11:58:00 am

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton sentenced former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to 30 months in prison Tuesday for his conviction on two counts of perjury, one count...

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News Pakistan police file complaint against journalists protesting media controls
Pakistan police file complaint against journalists protesting media controls
Michael Sung
June 5, 2007 11:32:00 am

Pakistani police Tuesday issued a "preliminary complaint" against approximately 200 journalists, opposition party members and pro-democracy activists who demonstrated outside the Pakistan parliament building Monday evening protesting an emergency media ordinance in defiance of a government ban on unauthorized...

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News UN rights investigators must remain independent: Chile president
UN rights investigators must remain independent: Chile president
Michael Sung
June 5, 2007 10:49:00 am

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet urged members of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to adopt measures to ensure the independence of UNHRC investigators . Speaking during a special UNHRC...

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News Hamdan military commission charges dismissal [OMC]
Hamdan military commission charges dismissal [OMC]
June 5, 2007 10:43:00 am

United States of America v. Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Guantanamo Bay Military Commission, June 4, 2007 . Read the full text of the decision . Reported in JURIST's...

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Khadr military commission charges dismissal [OMC]
June 5, 2007 10:41:00 am

United States of America v. Ohmar Ahmed Khadr, Guantanamo Bay Military Commission, June 4, 2007 . Read the full text of the decision . Reported in JURIST's...

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Nine charged in US for plot to overthrow Laos government
Michael Sung
June 5, 2007 09:54:00 am

Nine suspects were arrested and charged Monday in the US Eastern District of California for allegedly plotting the violent overthrow of the Laotian government. The suspects, including General Vang Pao, a former general in the Royal...

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News Oregon ecoterrorist sentenced to 7 years in prison for arson
Oregon ecoterrorist sentenced to 7 years in prison for arson
Michael Sung
June 5, 2007 09:24:00 am

Daniel McGowan was sentenced to seven years in prison Monday after pleading guilty last year to ecoterrorism charges, including participation in a criminal conspiracy and two counts of arson. McGowan was among ten defendants who...

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News US military judge drops charges against second Guantanamo detainee
US military judge drops charges against second Guantanamo detainee
Michael Sung
June 5, 2007 08:38:00 am

US Navy Capt. Keith J. Allred, the judge presiding over military commission proceedings against Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan Monday dismissed all charges against...

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Ex-KKK member on trial for 1964 civil rights killings
Leslie Schulman
June 4, 2007 07:09:00 pm

The trial of former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) member James Ford Seale , accused of kidnapping and killing two black men in Mississippi in 1964, began Monday. Seale, now 71 years old, was originally arrested in 1964 on...

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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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