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News Spain aided US rendition flights: report
Spain aided US rendition flights: report
Jake Oresick
December 1, 2008 01:20:00 pm

The Spanish Foreign Ministry expressly allowed the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to use Spanish resources in transporting terror suspects to Guantanamo Bay, according to a 2002 internal Foreign Ministry memorandum ...

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Obama confirms Holder attorney general nomination
Ximena Marinero
December 1, 2008 11:59:00 am

US President-elect Barack Obama officially announced on Monday that he is nominating former Department of Justice (DOJ) official Eric Holder as the next US attorney general. If confirmed by...

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News Zimbabwe government to ignore African regional court order on land redistribution
Zimbabwe government to ignore African regional court order on land redistribution
Kayleigh Shebs
December 1, 2008 10:30:00 am

Government officials in Zimbabwe said Monday that they will disregard a South African Development Community Tribunal ruling that ordered Zimbabwe to halt its Land Reform Program . The tribunal...

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Switzerland voters approve permanent heroin assisted treatment program
Tere Miller-Sporrer
December 1, 2008 10:15:00 am

The government of Switzerland on Sunday announced that voters in a referendum have approved a measure making the country's heroin assisted treatment program (HAT) permanent. Sixty-eight percent [results,...

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News Iraq court directs US to free photographer detained for over 2 months
Iraq court directs US to free photographer detained for over 2 months
Jay Carmella
December 1, 2008 10:07:00 am

The Central Criminal Court of Iraq (CCCI) on Sunday ordered the release of Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed, an Iraqi freelance photographer working for Reuters held by the US military. The court order, supplied to a Reuters' attorney [Reuters...

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News Kazakhstan falling short on reforming election laws: HRW
Kazakhstan falling short on reforming election laws: HRW
Safiya Boucaud
December 1, 2008 08:20:00 am

Kazakhstan has fallen short on its pledges to reform election laws before it takes over as chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) , Europe's main security and human rights body, in 2010, Human...

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News Myanmar journalists sentenced to prison for possessing UN rights report
Myanmar journalists sentenced to prison for possessing UN rights report
Tarah Park
December 1, 2008 07:28:00 am

A Myanmar court on Friday sentenced two reporters to seven years imprisonment for allegedly undercutting the country's military junta by possessing reports deemed seditious. Thet Zin and Sein Win Maung were found in February with a copy of a...

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Montenegrins vote for independence from Serbia

Citizens of Montenegro voted by 55.5-45.5% on May 21, 2006 to secede from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro and declare independence. The new country formally declared independence on June 3 of that year. Learn more about the 2006 Montenegro independence referendum.

Prison reformer Elizabeth Fry born

English prison reformer Elizabeth Fry was born on May 21, 1780. Learn more about Elizabeth Fry.

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