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News India PM pushes tougher anti-terrorism measures after Mumbai attacks
India PM pushes tougher anti-terrorism measures after Mumbai attacks
Steve Czajkowski
November 30, 2008 11:06:00 am

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday convened a meeting of all political parties in order to gather national support for a plan to strengthen security in the country after terrorist attacks in country's financial capital of...

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Civil rights complaint filed over subprime credit ratings
Steve Czajkowski
November 30, 2008 10:14:00 am

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) has filed a federal civil rights complaint with the US Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Office of Fair Housing & Equal Opportunity (FHEO) ...

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News Argentina court formally charges ex-president Menem in arms deals
Argentina court formally charges ex-president Menem in arms deals
Jake Oresick
November 29, 2008 04:58:00 pm

Former Argentine President Carlos Menem was formally charged Friday with illegally trafficking arms to Croatia and Ecuador, contrary to a 1991 UN embargo against Croatia and a 1995 Organization of American States (OAS) ban on selling...

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News Africa regional court rules white Zimbabwe farmers illegally deprived of land
Africa regional court rules white Zimbabwe farmers illegally deprived of land
Leslie Schulman
November 29, 2008 10:42:00 am

The Namibia-based Southern African Development Community Tribunal on Friday ruled that 78 white Zimbabwe farmers whose land was seized by the Zimbabwe government under its farm redistribution program were owed compensation and that the seizures...

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News UN rights chief says accountability necessary for Congo peace
UN rights chief says accountability necessary for Congo peace
Leslie Schulman
November 29, 2008 10:01:00 am

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday urged accountability for abuses as a prerequisite to quelling six years of fighting and restoring peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [JURIST news...

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UN Hariri tribunal could start prosecutions March 1
Jake Oresick
November 29, 2008 08:01:00 am

The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon could begin prosecuting suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on March 1, 2009 with its prosecutor's scheduled arrival at The Hague, according...

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Thailand PM demotes police chief as anti-government protests continue
Steve Czajkowski
November 28, 2008 01:28:00 pm

Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat demoted Police Chief Gen. Patcharawat Wongsuwan to an inactive position within the Prime Minister's office, according to media reports Friday. Patcharawat's removal comes a day after the Prime Minister declared...

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Germany must make more changes to VW anti-takeover law: EU
Steve Czajkowski
November 28, 2008 12:32:00 pm

The European Commission (EC) Thursday called on Germany to modify its Volkswagen anti-takeover law within two months or else face referral of the matter to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) . The law,...

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News Russia judge refuses to step down from Politkovskaya case
Russia judge refuses to step down from Politkovskaya case
Ximena Marinero
November 28, 2008 09:40:00 am

Moscow Military District Court judge Yevgeny Zubov Wednesday refused to recuse himself from the trial of three men accused of involvement in the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya . The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office...

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Mexico senate approves right-to-die law
Ximena Marinero
November 28, 2008 09:38:00 am

The Mexican Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would amend the General Law of Health to allow terminally ill patients to refuse medical treatment. The bill...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

FDR proposed 'court-packing' plan

On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, frustrated with the US Supreme Court's treatment of some of his economic reforms, proposed a plan to add judges to that and other federal courts whenever a sitting judge reached the age of seventy but declined to retire. Critics accused Roosevelt of indulging in autocracy and "court-packing." Review the text of Roosevelt's "fireside chat" on the proposal from March 9, 1937. Roosevelt eventually dropped the initiative but was nonetheless able to fill seven vacancies on the Court over the next four years, achieving his goal indirectly.

Panamanian dictator Noriega indicted

On February 5, 1988, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was indicted on charges of drug smuggling and money laundering. The following year, he was extradited to the United States and later sentenced to 30 years in US federal prison. In 1999, the French government requested that Noriega be extradited to France, where he had been convicted of money laundering. In that same year, the government of Panama also requested the extradition of Noriega, as a result of his 1995 conviction in absentia on murder charges.

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