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News Habyarimana assassination report [Rwanda Mutsinzi Commission]
Habyarimana assassination report [Rwanda Mutsinzi Commission]
January 11, 2010 05:18:00 pm

Report of the Investigation into the Causes and Circumstances of and Responsibility for the Attack of 06/04/1994 Against the Falcon 50 Rwandan Presidential Aeroplane, Registration Number 9XR-NN, Mutsinzi Commission of the Government of the Republic of Rwanda, January 11, 2010...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments in interstate radioactive waste disposal suit
Supreme Court hears arguments in interstate radioactive waste disposal suit
Jaclyn Belczyk | JURIST Executive Director
January 11, 2010 03:44:00 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases. In Alabama v. North Carolina , the Court heard arguments on an interstate dispute over...

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News Russia law allowing house arrest to reduce prison population takes effect
Russia law allowing house arrest to reduce prison population takes effect
Patrice Collins
January 11, 2010 02:18:00 pm

A Russian law allowing minor offenders to serve their sentences under house arrest rather than in prison entered into force on Sunday. The bill, approved by the Russian State Duma last month...

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News California federal court begins Proposition 8 trial
California federal court begins Proposition 8 trial
Steve Dotterer
January 11, 2010 01:07:00 pm

A trial on the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 same-sex marriage ban commenced Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California . Proceedings included opening statements from lead attorneys and testimony...

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News Supreme Court temporarily blocks YouTube broadcast of Proposition 8 trial
Supreme Court temporarily blocks YouTube broadcast of Proposition 8 trial
Carrie Schimizzi
January 11, 2010 12:01:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked an order allowing delayed video coverage of the Proposition 8 trial on the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban to be...

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News Denmark prosecutors add terrorism charge in Muhammad cartoonist attempted killing
Denmark prosecutors add terrorism charge in Muhammad cartoonist attempted killing
Megan McKee | JURIST Staff
January 11, 2010 11:58:00 am

Danish prosecutors on Monday brought an additional charge of terrorism against the Somali man already charged with the attempted murders of Kurt Westergaard, illustrator of the controversial 2005 cartoon depicting Prophet Muhammad as a...

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News Rwanda report finds Hutus responsible for 1994 killing that sparked genocide
Rwanda report finds Hutus responsible for 1994 killing that sparked genocide
Ann Riley
January 11, 2010 11:52:00 am

The Rwandan government released a report Monday concluding that the 1994 assassination of then-president Juvenal Habyarimana was the work of Hutu extremists. An independent committee of experts found that Hutu extremists, including members...

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News Supreme Court rules <i>habeas</i> reviews cannot consider non-record evidence
Supreme Court rules habeas reviews cannot consider non-record evidence
Andrew Morgan
January 11, 2010 11:41:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in McDaniel v. Brown that a federal district court may not consider non-record evidence when conducting a sufficiency review of...

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News Iran chief prosecutor urges sedition trials for election protest leaders
Iran chief prosecutor urges sedition trials for election protest leaders
Andrew Morgan
January 11, 2010 10:42:00 am

Iran's Prosecutor-General Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei on Monday called for sedition trials against leaders of protests following last June's contested presidential election . In a statement to Tehran prosecutors , Ejei said that he...

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News Italy authorities evacuate African immigrants following violence
Italy authorities evacuate African immigrants following violence
Hillary Stemple
January 11, 2010 09:50:00 am

Police in the southern Italian town of Rosarno began evacuating hundreds of African immigrants Saturday, following three days of violence that began Thursday when a group of immigrants was attacked while returning from the farms where they worked. The...

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Confederate rebels' voting rights restored under amnesty

On May 22, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the General Amnesty Act, allowing all but about 500 Southern male voters denied voting rights as a punishment for rebellion under the XIVth Amendment to regain their right to vote and hold office. General amnesty was finally made universal on June 6, 1898.

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On May 22, 1972, the former British colony of Ceylon ratified a new constitution, becoming the Republic of Sri Lanka.

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