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News EU enlargement chief warns Turkey over possible court ban of ruling party
EU enlargement chief warns Turkey over possible court ban of ruling party
Eric Firkel
March 30, 2008 10:13:00 am

EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn warned Turkey on Saturday that there would be serious ramifications for its bid to join the European Union if the Constitutional Court of Turkey decides...

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News Zimbabwe election clouded by fraud allegations
Zimbabwe election clouded by fraud allegations
David Frueh
March 29, 2008 05:11:00 pm

Zimbabweans voted Saturday in local, senate, assembly and presidential elections amid opposition allegations that the government was rigging the results. President Robert Mugabe was challenged by ruling party defector Simba Makoni and...

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News Pakistan PM vows to press for reinstatement of purged judges
Pakistan PM vows to press for reinstatement of purged judges
David Frueh
March 29, 2008 03:59:00 pm

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani told parliament Saturday that he will 'work for the reinstatement' of superior court judges purged by President Pervez Musharraf last fall. The commitment was made in...

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News UN council deplores Myanmar rights abuses
UN council deplores Myanmar rights abuses
Steve Czajkowski
March 29, 2008 03:30:00 pm

The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution Friday condemning the military government of Myanmar for ongoing systematic violations of human rights and people's fundamental freedoms. The European Union expressed...

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News Former Alabama governor released from prison pending appeal of fraud conviction
Former Alabama governor released from prison pending appeal of fraud conviction
Steve Czajkowski
March 29, 2008 03:12:00 pm

Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman (D) was released from federal prison Friday after a federal appeals court ruled that he was not a flight risk while his appeal of his fraud and bribery conviction...

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News Anthrax reporter appeals contempt of court order for not revealing sources
Anthrax reporter appeals contempt of court order for not revealing sources
Nick Fiske
March 29, 2008 12:52:00 pm

Former USA Today reporter Toni Locy on Friday asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to reverse a federal judge's decision to impose sanctions against her for refusing to disclose government sources [RCFP...

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News Malaysia opposition urges release of ethnic Indian protesters held under security law
Malaysia opposition urges release of ethnic Indian protesters held under security law
Nick Fiske
March 29, 2008 11:38:00 am

Malaysia's opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) on Saturday denounced the government's refusal to release five prominent members of the Hindu Rights Action Force, including M. Manoharan who was recently elected to the state legislature. The...

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News Ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee describes torture allegations
Ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee describes torture allegations
Nick Fiske
March 29, 2008 10:17:00 am

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Murat Kurnaz , a Turkish citizen born in Germany, detailed his allegations that he was tortured while in US custody in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay in a...

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EU reform treaty report [UK HL]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 28, 2008 11:42:00 pm

European Union (Amendment) Bill and the Lisbon Treaty: Implications for the UK Constitution, UK House of Lords Constitution Committee, March 28, 2008 [report finding that the treaty would not affect UK sovereignty, but saying it is important for Parliament to...

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Tenth Hariri assassination investigation report [UNIIIC]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 28, 2008 06:26:00 pm

Tenth report of the International Independent Investigation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolutions 1595 (2005), 1636 (2005), 1644 (2005), 1686 (2006), and 1748 (2007), March 28, 2006 [latest report of the probe headed by D.A. Bellemare looking into the...

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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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