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News Germany detains Rwanda presidential aide for 1994 assassination
Germany detains Rwanda presidential aide for 1994 assassination
Kayleigh Shebs
November 10, 2008 10:32:00 am

German officials on Sunday arrested an aide to Rwandan President Paul Kagame in connection with the 1994 assassination of then-president Juvenal Habyarima that touched off the infamous Rwanda genocide . Rose Kabuye...

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Obama advisers planning Guantanamo prison closure: report
Jay Carmella
November 10, 2008 10:31:00 am

Advisers to US President-elect Barack Obama have begun working on a plan to hold criminal trials in US courts for a large number of Guantanamo Bay detainees, according to a Monday report by...

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Serbia judges critical of draft judicial reforms sent to parliament
Tarah Park
November 10, 2008 10:21:00 am

The Judges Association of Serbia (JAS) has criticized a set of proposed judicial reforms slated for debate in the country's parliament beginning Tuesday. The Serbian Ministry of Justice and the Organization for Security and...

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News Obama planning to use executive orders to reverse some Bush policies: Podesta
Obama planning to use executive orders to reverse some Bush policies: Podesta
Safiya Boucaud
November 10, 2008 08:24:00 am

John Podesta , former White House Chief of Staff under President Bill Clinton and now co-chair of the transition team for US president-elect Barack Obama said in an interview on Fox News Sunday over the...

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News UN officials warn of ‘war crimes’ and ‘genocide’ as Congo killings continue
UN officials warn of ‘war crimes’ and ‘genocide’ as Congo killings continue
Devin Montgomery
November 9, 2008 03:46:00 pm

UN Peacekeeping Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo (MUNOC) head Alan Doss on Saturday condemned recent killings of civilians by militias in the country as war crimes. Doss made the...

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Demonstrators protest California same-sex marriage ban
Devin Montgomery
November 9, 2008 03:01:00 pm

Thousands of demonstrators in San Diego and Los Angeles on Saturday protested the passage of Proposition 8 , an amendment to the California constitution making same-sex marriages illegal in the...

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UK revokes visa of Thailand ex-PM convicted of corruption
Steve Czajkowski
November 9, 2008 11:14:00 am

The British government has revoked the visa of former Thai prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra , and his wife Pojamarn Shinawatra according to media reports Saturday. The couple had been residing in Britain prior to Thaksin's...

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Indonesia AG confirms execution of 3 ‘Bali bombers’
Steve Czajkowski
November 9, 2008 09:28:00 am

The Indonesian attorney general's office Sunday confirmed that three men convicted for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings which killed 202 people were executed by firing squad just after midnight Saturday local time. The executions were carried out...

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News Federal court rules against part of terrorism finance law
Federal court rules against part of terrorism finance law
Michael Sung
November 8, 2008 10:48:00 am

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Oregon has ruled that the US Treasury Department's freezing of the assets of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation violated the organization's due processes rights because it...

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Myanmar court sentences opposition lawyers to prison
Michael Sung
November 8, 2008 10:03:00 am

A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday sentenced two lawyers from the National League for Democracy (NLD to four month prison terms for being "disrespectful" while representing dissident students. The US Department of State...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Johnson signed law against burning draft cards

On August 31, 1965, President Johnson signed a law making the burning of draft cards a federal offense subject to a five-year prison sentence and $1000 fine. In response to the law and in protest of the war in Vietnam, the student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged the first public burning of a draft card in the United States on October 15, 1965. The constitutionality of the federal law was upheld in 1968 by the US Supreme Court in US v. O'Brien.

Gdansk Agreement reached

On August 31, 1980, the communist government of Poland and labor leaders settled the Gdansk Agreement. The accord settled a summer of labor strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. With the Agreement, Poland became the first communist country to allow the creation of an independent labor union, which was called Solidarity. Solidarity then became the driving force that ended communism in Poland. Learn more about the history of Solidarity.

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