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News Rights group urges South Carolina to stop segregating HIV-positive prisoners
Rights group urges South Carolina to stop segregating HIV-positive prisoners
Zach Zagger
August 7, 2010 12:48:16 pm

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday urged the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) to stop segregating HIV-positive inmates . HRW claims the policy promotes stigma and discrimination because HIV-positive prisoners are housed in...

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News New York City subway plot suspect pleads not guilty
New York City subway plot suspect pleads not guilty
Daniel Richey
August 6, 2010 04:28:03 pm

Suspected terrorist Adis Medunjanin pleaded not guilty Friday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York to charges of participating in a plot to detonate a bomb inside the New...

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News Florida AG responds to motion to dismiss health care lawsuit
Florida AG responds to motion to dismiss health care lawsuit
Dwyer Arce
August 6, 2010 02:35:28 pm

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum on Friday filed a response urging a federal court not to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the newly enacted health care reform law [HR 3590 text;...

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News Ex-Khmer Rouge leader hires new counsel ahead of appeal
Ex-Khmer Rouge leader hires new counsel ahead of appeal
Daniel Richey
August 6, 2010 02:17:31 pm

Former Khmer Rouge official Kaing Guek Eav , also known as "Duch," has hired Cambodian lawyer Kang Ritheary to replace his previous lawyer, according to documents released by the Extraordinary...

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News Failure of European Muslims to integrate fuels terror recruitment: report
Failure of European Muslims to integrate fuels terror recruitment: report
Dwyer Arce
August 6, 2010 11:57:52 am

The US State Department warned Thursday that the alienation of European Muslim communities through various laws and policies could fuel recruitment for terror groups. The Country Reports on Terrorism 2009 , an annual report the State Department...

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News CIA removed terror suspects from Guantanamo to avoid due process: AP
CIA removed terror suspects from Guantanamo to avoid due process: AP
Daniel Richey
August 6, 2010 11:24:39 am

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) transferred several high-profile prisoners to Guantanamo Bay to await trial in 2003, only to transfer them back into the CIA's network of secret prisons so they would not be...

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News US Senate fails to approve minority farmer settlement
US Senate fails to approve minority farmer settlement
Dwyer Arce
August 6, 2010 10:33:16 am

The US Senate on Thursday failed to authorize a settlement between the US government and minority farmers for alleged discrimination. The $4.6 billion settlement would be distributed between several hundred thousand minority farmers. Among that group are...

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News Mexico high court upholds Mexico City same-sex marriage law
Mexico high court upholds Mexico City same-sex marriage law
Dwyer Arce
August 6, 2010 08:46:55 am

The Supreme Court of Mexico on Thursday ruled 8-2 that a Mexico City law allowing same-sex marriage is constitutional. The law, passed last year , was challenged...

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News DOJ charges 14 with aiding Somalia-based terror organization al-Shabaab
DOJ charges 14 with aiding Somalia-based terror organization al-Shabaab
Ann Riley
August 6, 2010 07:38:36 am

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday announced that 14 individuals have been charged with providing money, personnel and services to the Somalia-based Islamic terrorism organization al-Shabaab . Prosecutors in the Southern District...

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UN SG renews call for nuclear disarmament
Daniel Richey
August 5, 2010 05:12:22 pm

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called for the elimination of all nuclear weapons Thursday in a speech delivered during a visit to the Japanese city of Nagasaki. In his speech, Ban emphasized the importance of...

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Nuremberg war crimes trials began

On October 18, 1945, the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals began. Read US prosecutor Robert H. Jackson's opening statement.

Women declared "Persons" in Canada

On October 18, 1929, The Privy Council of the United Kingdom declared that women were considered "persons" under the laws of Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada had held in Edwards v. Canada that women were not considered "persons" under Canada's governing law, the British North America Act. The Privy Council overturned this ruling, declaring "that the exclusion of women from all public offices is a relic of days more barbarous than ours. And to those who would ask why the word 'persons' should include females, the obvious answer is, why should it not?"

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