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News Afghan cabinet ministers investigated under suspicion of corruption
Afghan cabinet ministers investigated under suspicion of corruption
Safiya Boucaud
November 23, 2009 09:56:00 am

The Afghan attorney general's office announced on Monday that two Afghan cabinet ministers are being questioned on corruption charges. The ministers are suspected of embezzlement and are among 15 government officials currently under investigation. The announcement came...

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News Federal judge dismisses civil suits against Pennsylvania judges
Federal judge dismisses civil suits against Pennsylvania judges
Matt Glenn
November 23, 2009 09:34:00 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania dismissed five civil suits Friday against two Luzerne County, PA judges accused of taking kickbacks in exchange for sentencing juveniles to private detention facilities....

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News Iran court sentences ex-VP for role in post-election unrest
Iran court sentences ex-VP for role in post-election unrest
Safiya Boucaud
November 22, 2009 11:45:00 am

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Court has sentenced former vice president and reformer Mohammad Ali Abtahi to six years in jail for his role in the unrest that followed the disputed June 12 presidential elections ,...

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News Rights group says Israel-Palestinian conflict claimed almost 9,000 lives in twenty years
Rights group says Israel-Palestinian conflict claimed almost 9,000 lives in twenty years
Steve Czajkowski
November 22, 2009 10:30:00 am

Marking its own 20th anniversary, Israeli human rights group B'Tselem claimed Sunday that almost 9,000 people have been killed in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians since 1989. A majority of the deaths...

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News DOJ dropping charges against Blackwater guard involved in 2007 Iraq shootings
DOJ dropping charges against Blackwater guard involved in 2007 Iraq shootings
Steve Czajkowski
November 22, 2009 09:40:00 am

Federal prosecutors from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) indicated Friday that they will drop manslaughter charges against a Blackwater Worldwide security guard who had been involved in the September 2007 shooting incident in...

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News Key ICTR witnesses threatening to boycott genocide trials after acquittals: report
Key ICTR witnesses threatening to boycott genocide trials after acquittals: report
Jay Carmella
November 21, 2009 12:56:00 pm

Groups representing key witnesses appearing before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) told Reuters Saturday that they may no longer participate in court trials following the acquittal of two suspects involved in the...

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News UN rights resolution criticizes Iran for post-election violations
UN rights resolution criticizes Iran for post-election violations
Jay Carmella
November 21, 2009 10:28:00 am

The UN Human Rights Committee Friday passed a resolution criticizing Iran for human rights violations, especially in the aftermath of the controversial reelection earlier this year of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . The...

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News Canada court orders review of US lesbian soldier refugee claim
Canada court orders review of US lesbian soldier refugee claim
Christian Ehret
November 21, 2009 10:09:00 am

Canada's Federal Court Friday ordered a review of a denial of refugee status for a lesbian US soldier who deserted the US Army in 2007 and fled to Canada. The Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB)...

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News Federal judge orders release of Algerian held at Guantanamo
Federal judge orders release of Algerian held at Guantanamo
Christian Ehret
November 21, 2009 08:59:00 am

A federal judge on Friday ordered the release of Algerian Guantanamo Bay detainee Farhi Saeed Bin Mohammed. Judge Gladys Kessler directed the government to "take all necessary and approrpriate steps to facilitate ...

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News ICTY appoints UK lawyer to represent Karadzic
ICTY appoints UK lawyer to represent Karadzic
Patrice Collins
November 20, 2009 03:05:00 pm

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday appointed British lawyer Richard Harvey to represent Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic if he continues to boycott his trial...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Bank of England granted political independence

On May 6, 1997, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the Bank of England would be granted political independence for the first time in the three-hundred year history of the Bank. This policy was statutized in the subsequent Bank of England Act of 1998 gave the Bank independent control of British monetary policy effective June 1, 1998. Read the Bank of England Act of 1998.

Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese laborers from US

On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States and prohibiting courts from bestowing US citizenship on Chinese. Connecticut Senator Joseph Hawley spoke out against the Act in these words: Let the proposed statue be read 100 years hence, dug out of the dust of ages and forgotten as it will be except for a line of sneer by some historian, and ask the young man not well read in the history of this country what was the reason for excluding these men and he would not be able to find it in the law. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its successors were abolished in 1943 at the insistence of President Franklin Roosevelt.

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