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News Guatemala ex-president begins embezzlement trial
Guatemala ex-president begins embezzlement trial
Drew Singer
January 22, 2011 12:51:28 pm

Former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo went to trial on Friday facing charges of embezzlement . Portillo denies accusations that he diverted approximately USD $15 million in funds from the Ministry of Defense while he...

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Haiti to probe alleged rights violations by former dictator: report
Drew Singer
January 22, 2011 12:39:46 pm

Amnesty International (AI) announced Friday that Haitian authorities will investigate crimes committed against humanity allegedly committed under the rule of Jean-Claude Duvalier during the 1970s and 80s. The announcement comes one day after...

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News Bosnia war crimes court sentences Muslim commander to 10 years
Bosnia war crimes court sentences Muslim commander to 10 years
John Paul Putney
January 21, 2011 04:20:39 pm

The appellate division of the War Crimes Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Friday sentenced Sefik Alic, a Muslim commander, to 10 years in prison, overturning his 2008 acquittal. The prosecutor appealed the original...

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News France court convicts former Vivendi bosses of misleading investors, insider trading
France court convicts former Vivendi bosses of misleading investors, insider trading
John Paul Putney
January 21, 2011 03:36:01 pm

A Paris criminal court on Friday convicted former Vivendi SA chairman and CEO Jean-Marie Messier of misleading investors during his tenure at the helm of the French entertainment giant. Canadian Edgar Bronfman Jr., former vice-chairman of Vivendi...

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News Federal judge denies request to overturn ex-Guantanamo detainee’s conviction
Federal judge denies request to overturn ex-Guantanamo detainee’s conviction
Drew Singer
January 21, 2011 02:29:53 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday denied a request to throw out the conviction of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani...

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News Serbia court sentences 9 Albanians for war crimes
Serbia court sentences 9 Albanians for war crimes
Drew Singer
January 21, 2011 02:00:32 pm

Nine former ethnic Albanian guerrillas have been sentenced to a total of 101 years in prison for killings committed after the Kosovo war ended. Belgrade's War Crimes Chamber of the Senior Court...

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UK court approves extradition of terror suspect to US
LaToya Sawyer
January 21, 2011 12:33:20 pm

A British court on Friday approved the extradition of alleged al Qaeda operative Abid Naseer to the US, where he will stand trial on several charges of terrorism , including providing material support to...

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News UN rights chief urges Mexico to probe government complicity in migrant kidnappings
UN rights chief urges Mexico to probe government complicity in migrant kidnappings
Brian Jackson
January 21, 2011 11:01:31 am

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday called on the Mexican government to investigate possible complicity by government officials in the mid-December abduction of 40 Central American migrants. While details are somewhat...

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UN rights experts to investigate Russia lawyer prison death
Megan McKee | JURIST Staff
January 21, 2011 09:49:01 am

A group of independent UN human rights experts will investigate the 2009 prison death of Moscow lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, his former colleague William Browder announced Thursday. Magnitsky was arrested after implicating Russian police in a...

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Verizon files lawsuit challenging FCC ‘net neutrality’ regulations
Carrie Schimizzi
January 21, 2011 08:12:36 am

Verizon on Thursday filed an appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit challenging new net neutrality rules that will allow the government...

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Mexican Army kills over 400 Texas prisoners of war

The Mexican army executed more than 400 Texian prisoners of war on March 27, 1836, during the Texas Revolution, in an event that would become known as the Goliad Massacre. A decree passed in December 1835 allowed Mexican soldiers under General Antonio López de Santa Anna to shoot any foreigners in rebellion. Texian Colonel James Fannin and his men surrendered to the Mexican government under the expectation that they would be treated as prisoners of war, but they were executed regardless, engendering sympathy (and eventual support) from the neighboring United States. Learn more about the Goliad Massacre.

Khrushchev becomes USSR leader

On March 27, 1958, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev became the new Premier of the USSR, replacing Joseph Stalin as the Soviet leader. During his rise to power, Khruschev denounced crimes of the Stalinist regime and the "cult of personality" surrounding his predecessor. While in office as Soviet Premier, Khruschev oversaw some of the most famous and influential events of the Cold War: the launch of Sputnik, the Sino-Soviet split, the U-2 Spy Plan incident, and finally the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963, which led to his ouster by reactionary elements the following year. The conspirators forced Khruschev's resignation on October 15, 1964 and replaced him with Leonid Brezhnev.

Read the New York Times obituary of Nikita Khrushchev.

President Andrew Johnson vetoed citizenship for slaves

On March 27, 1866, President Andrew Johnson vetoed a civil rights bill that would later become the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, conferring full US citizenship on all slaves. Read President Johnson's veto letter, transmitted to the US Senate.

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