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News Italy CIA rendition trial to continue despite excluded evidence
Italy CIA rendition trial to continue despite excluded evidence
Christian Ehret
May 21, 2009 11:52:00 am

An Italian judge ruled Wednesday that the trial of 26 Americans and seven Italians involving the 2003 abduction of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr by the CIA will proceed despite excluded evidence. Judge Oscar Magi...

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News Obama signs financial fraud legislation to create investigatory commission
Obama signs financial fraud legislation to create investigatory commission
Christian Ehret
May 21, 2009 10:40:00 am

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act , which aims at expanding the federal government's authority to prosecute acts of financial fraud. Obama said [press...

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News Slovakia Constitutional Court finds anti-corruption court unconstitutional
Slovakia Constitutional Court finds anti-corruption court unconstitutional
Andrew Morgan
May 21, 2009 10:02:00 am

The Constitutional Court of Slovakia ruled Wednesday that the Special Court, established to try corruption and organized crime cases, violates the Slovak Constitution . The Constitutional Court found that the ability...

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News Obama issues preemption directive limiting Bush regulatory overrides of states
Obama issues preemption directive limiting Bush regulatory overrides of states
Christian Ehret
May 21, 2009 08:43:00 am

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday directed heads of executive departments and agencies that a sufficient legal basis is required to preempt state laws and that any legitimate state prerogatives should be fully considered, marking a...

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News Canadian held in US pleads guilty to supporting al Qaeda
Canadian held in US pleads guilty to supporting al Qaeda
Andrew Morgan
May 21, 2009 08:34:00 am

A Canadian man pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of conspiring to provide material support to al Qaeda before a federal court. Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, a Canadian citizen of Somali descent, was charged with...

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News FBI director says releasing Guantanamo detainees into US could harm national security
FBI director says releasing Guantanamo detainees into US could harm national security
Devin Montgomery
May 21, 2009 08:06:00 am

FBI Director Robert Mueller told the US House Judiciary Committee Wednesday that the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to the US could pose a threat to national security, even...

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News House passes Senate version of credit card holders’ ‘bill of rights’
House passes Senate version of credit card holders’ ‘bill of rights’
Brian Jackson
May 21, 2009 07:07:00 am

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 361-64 to pass the Senate version of the Credit Card Holders' Bill of Rights . Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called the...

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News UN rights investigator to continue Gaza Strip mission despite Israel objections
UN rights investigator to continue Gaza Strip mission despite Israel objections
Devin Montgomery
May 21, 2009 06:03:00 am

UN rights investigator Richard Goldman said Wednesday that his fact-finding mission into possible human rights violations during the recent Gaza Strip conflict will continue despite objections by Israel. Goldman said that he...

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News Myanmar opens Suu Kyi trial to journalists and diplomats
Myanmar opens Suu Kyi trial to journalists and diplomats
Andrew Morgan
May 20, 2009 03:15:00 pm

Authorities in Myanmar on Wednesday granted 39 foreign diplomats and journalists limited access to the trial of pro-democracy advocate and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi . Suu Kyi met briefly with representatives of Thailand,...

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Spain congress urges limits to universal jurisdiction claims
Christian Ehret
May 20, 2009 02:01:00 pm

Spain's Congress of Deputies , the lower house of the Spanish parliament, passed a non-binding resolution Tuesday aimed at limiting the exercise of universal jurisdiction over foreign nations in Spanish courts to those cases in which...

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UK House of Lords becomes an elected body

On March 7, 2007, Britain's lower house of Parliament, the House of Commons, voted to change the upper chamber, the House of Lords, to an elected body. Previously, appointments to the House of Lords were based on noble birth.

Selma-Montgomery march began with 'Bloody Sunday'

On March 7, 1965, 525 civil rights activists began a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Just outside Selma, heavily armed police and deputies broke up the march with billy clubs and tear gas, injuring 65 people and hospitalizing 17 in a melee that became known as "Bloody Sunday." After federal court protection had been secured, 3,200 marchers started out again on March 21. By the time they reached Montgomery on March 25, their numbers had swelled to 25,000. Learn more about the Selma-to-Montgomery March from the US National Parks Service, which preserves the route as a National Historic Trail.

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