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News US military judge denies prosecution resentencing request in Hamdan trial
US military judge denies prosecution resentencing request in Hamdan trial
Steve Czajkowski
October 31, 2008 07:52:00 pm

A US military judge denied a request by prosecutors Thursday to reconsider the prison term for Salim Ahmed Hamdan , the former driver for Osama Bin Laden . US...

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News Serbia eligible for EU in 2009 if legal conditions met: draft report
Serbia eligible for EU in 2009 if legal conditions met: draft report
Kayleigh Shebs
October 31, 2008 04:01:00 pm

A draft of a European Commission report obtained by a Serbian newspaper this week has confirmed that Serbia should remain eligible for candidacy within the European Union in 2009 provided the country continues to...

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News Federal appeals court upholds Missouri Halloween sex offender law
Federal appeals court upholds Missouri Halloween sex offender law
Jay Carmella
October 31, 2008 02:00:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Thursday upheld a Missouri state law designed to prevent registered sex offenders from participating in Halloween activities. The law requires sex...

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News US jury convicts son of Liberia ex-president of torture
US jury convicts son of Liberia ex-president of torture
Devin Montgomery
October 31, 2008 10:24:00 am

A jury for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Thursday found Charles McArthur Emmanuel, son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor , guilty of charges that he was...

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News Albania prosecutor refuses to investigate Serbian organ trafficking allegations
Albania prosecutor refuses to investigate Serbian organ trafficking allegations
Kiely Lewandowski
October 31, 2008 08:25:00 am

Serbian prosecutors Thursday condemned Albania's refusal to initiate an investigation into allegations of organ trafficking in Kosovo. Albanian Prosecutor General Ina Rama refused Tuesday to cooperate with Serbian war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic and...

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UK attorney general to investigate Guantanamo detainee torture claims
Devin Montgomery
October 31, 2008 08:13:00 am

UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has asked Attorney General Baroness Scotland to begin a criminal investigation into claims that both British and US officers contributed to the torture of Guantanamo Bay detainee and former UK resident Binyam...

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Russia antitrust authority rules oil producers broke competition laws
Eric Firkel
October 31, 2008 07:43:00 am

Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) Thursday announced that Russian oil companies Rosneft and LUKoil broke competition laws in the Russian market by fixing monopoly-like prices this summer. The FAS found Rosneft and LUKoil fixed high...

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Federal Circuit rules against business methods patentability
Eric Firkel
October 31, 2008 06:39:00 am

In a landmark intellectual property decision Thursday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled 9-3 that a business concept for hedging risk in the field of commodities trading was too vague for...

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ICC president says ICC at critical ten-year stage
Kiely Lewandowski
October 31, 2008 12:00:00 am

International Criminal Court (ICC) President Judge Phillippe Kirsch told the UN General Assembly Thursday that the ICC is at a "critical stage" ten years after its creation. Presenting his annual report [text, PDF;...

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Indonesia parliament passes broad anti-pornography law
Leslie Schulman
October 30, 2008 04:02:00 pm

The Indonesian parliament on Thursday passed a controversial anti-pornography law criminalizing all "obscene" works and "bodily movements" that could violate public morality. Proponents of the law include President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono [official website;...

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Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the US in perpetuity

On February 23, 1903, Cuba leased Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity" as part of the Cuban-American Treaty. The United States subsequently used the lease to establish a Naval Base at Guantanamo. With the US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, a military prison was built at Guantanamo to house prisoners of war and terrorism suspects captured by American forces, becoming the subject of much controversy over its detentions without trial.

NAACP founder W.E.B. DuBois born

W.E.B. DuBois, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was born on February 23, 1868. Review the W.E.B. DuBois Papers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and released FBI files on DuBois kept because of his affiliation with "communist front groups."

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