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News Zimbabwe president approves law to nationalize banking, mining industries
Zimbabwe president approves law to nationalize banking, mining industries
Devin Montgomery
March 9, 2008 04:42:00 pm

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has signed into law a bill requiring key industries, like mining and banking, to be controlled by local owners, a government newspaper reported on Sunday. Government officials...

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Mike Rosen-Molina
March 9, 2008 12:06:00 pm

The Constitutional Court of Armenia Saturday rejected a challenge brought by an opposition candidate against the results of February's disputed presidential election, ruling that although polling discrepancies existed they did not affect the election's outcome....

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Pakistan lawyers launch new protests calling for restoration of judges
Steve Czajkowski
March 9, 2008 11:51:00 am

Pakistani lawyers protested Sunday, continuing their call for the reinstatement of former Supreme Court justices who were ousted after President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule in November 2007. Sunday's protest kicks off a week of...

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Devin Montgomery
March 9, 2008 10:03:00 am

Democratic members of both the US House and Senate have criticized President George Bush's Saturday veto of a bill that would have prohibited the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from using waterboarding [JURIST...

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Myanmar rejects independent observers for May constitution referendum
Nick Fiske
March 8, 2008 02:31:00 pm

The military government of Myanmar on Saturday rejected a suggestion by UN special envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari that the upcoming May referendum on a new constitution for the country...

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Nick Fiske
March 8, 2008 02:11:00 pm

Chinese prosecutors plan to proceed to trial against human rights activist Hu Jia and the trial could begin within a month, a defense lawyer for Hu said Saturday. Hu was formally charged last month with inciting subversion of state...

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China high court overturned 15 percent of death sentences in 2007: judge
Alexis Unkovic
March 8, 2008 11:25:00 am

China's Supreme People's Court overturned 15 percent of death sentences imposed by lower courts during 2007, the president of the Supreme Court's criminal law chamber said in a Saturday China News report . Huang Ermei...

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Nick Fiske
March 8, 2008 11:08:00 am

Bolivia's National Electoral Court on Friday blocked a national referendum on the country's new draft constitution which was to take place on May 4. The new constitution, supported by Bolivian President Evo Morales [official website,...

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March 8, 2008 10:35:00 am

US President George W. Bush said in his weekly radio address Saturday that he has vetoed an intelligence funding bill that would restrict CIA interrogators to using only interrogation techniques explicitly authorized by...

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US District Judge Reggie B. Walton of the District of Columbia on Friday held former USA Today reporter Toni Locy in contempt of court and ordered her to personally pay a daily fine for continuing to...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

World Intellectual Property Organization created

On April 26, 1970, the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) went into force, creating WIPO. WIPO is a United Nations agency that works to promote intellectual property rights in the international community. Today, 184 nations have signed the convention.

Learn more about WIPO.

US soldier arrested for killing John Wilkes Booth

On April 26, 1865, Sergeant Thomas P. Corbett was placed under technical arrest for killing John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.

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