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News Iceland parliament to consider EU accession
Iceland parliament to consider EU accession
Devin Montgomery
May 11, 2009 10:12:00 am

Iceland Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir said Sunday that the country's parliament will consider applying to join the European Union (EU) by holding a referendum when it meets on May...

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News US judge rejects delay of first military commission hearing since suspension order
US judge rejects delay of first military commission hearing since suspension order
Devin Montgomery
May 11, 2009 09:03:00 am

Military judge Colonel James Pohl has rejected a motion to delay a military commission hearing for Saudi Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi , according to a Sunday report by the Miami...

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News FBI failing to maintain accurate terrorist watchlist: DOJ report
FBI failing to maintain accurate terrorist watchlist: DOJ report
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
May 11, 2009 08:59:00 am

The FBI has failed to maintain an accurate and effective terrorist watchlist by failing to include known terrorism suspects and to remove records of people that have been cleared, according to a report ...

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News Lawyers who authorized torture ‘disgraced profession’: JFK counsel Sorensen
Lawyers who authorized torture ‘disgraced profession’: JFK counsel Sorensen
Andrew Morgan
May 10, 2009 11:58:00 am

Ted Sorensen, former special counsel to US President John F. Kennedy, said in a commencement address at the University of Nebraska College of Law Saturday that lawyers from the Department of Justice (DOJ)...

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News Bangladesh foreign minister begins 13-year corruption sentence
Bangladesh foreign minister begins 13-year corruption sentence
Andrew Morgan
May 10, 2009 11:41:00 am

Former Bangladeshi foreign minister Morshed Khan began serving as a 13-year sentence on Sunday, after surrendering to a Dhaka court. Khan, who served from 2001 to 2006 under former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia was convicted ...

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News UN adds new dangerous chemicals to treaty blacklist
UN adds new dangerous chemicals to treaty blacklist
Amelia Mathias
May 9, 2009 10:59:00 am

The UN Environment Programme , meeting in Geneva on Saturday, decided to add nine chemicals to its list of banned chemicals under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) . Not all the added...

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News Canada government to appeal ruling mandating efforts to repatriate Khadr
Canada government to appeal ruling mandating efforts to repatriate Khadr
Ingrid Burke Friedman | JURIST Editorial Director
May 9, 2009 10:35:00 am

An official for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs Friday confirmed the government’s intention to appeal a Federal Court ruling directing the government to firmly push for the repatriation of Canadian Guantanamo Bay [JURIST...

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News US military contractor gets probation after pleading guilty to shooting Afghan detainee
US military contractor gets probation after pleading guilty to shooting Afghan detainee
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
May 8, 2009 02:50:00 pm

A US military contractor who pleaded guilty in February to voluntary manslaughter for the 2008 shooting of an Afghan detainee was sentenced in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ...

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News Obama administration to keep Bush-era rule on polar bear global warming protections
Obama administration to keep Bush-era rule on polar bear global warming protections
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
May 8, 2009 01:34:00 pm

The US Department of the Interior (DOI) will maintain a controversial Bush-era rule that limits how polar bears are protected from global warming , Secretary of the Interior Ken...

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News White House proposes elimination of illegal alien incarceration program
White House proposes elimination of illegal alien incarceration program
Brian Jackson
May 8, 2009 12:29:00 pm

US President Barack Obama on Thursday proposed $17 billion in cuts to the fiscal year 2010 federal budget, including cutting $400 million from the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) . SCAAP is a...

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India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster

On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court. Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.

Seventeenth Amendment ratified

On April 8, 1913, the Seventeenth Amendment to the US Constitution, providing for the election of senators by popular vote rather than selection by state legislatures, was ratified. Learn more about the Seventeenth Amendment.

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