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News Supreme Court allows Texas voter ID law for upcoming election
Supreme Court allows Texas voter ID law for upcoming election
Ann Schober
October 18, 2014 12:26:17 pm

The US Supreme Court on Saturday allowed Texas to enforce a strict 2011 voter identification law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls. The court provided no reasoning in...

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News HRW: claims of abuse in Western Sahara by Morocco exaggerated
HRW: claims of abuse in Western Sahara by Morocco exaggerated
Julie Deisher-Edwards
October 18, 2014 12:23:11 pm

Claims of human rights abuse against Sahrawi refugees living in camps in the Sahara desert administered by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario) have been exaggerated, Human Rights...

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News UN rights office condemns Maldives prosecution of human rights commission members
UN rights office condemns Maldives prosecution of human rights commission members
Julie Deisher-Edwards
October 18, 2014 07:04:44 am

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed concern over the Maldives's Supreme Court's prosecution of five members of Maldives's Human Rights Commission, following the commission's written submission for OHCHR's Universal Periodic Review...

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News Courts in Arizona, Wyoming, Alaska strike down same-sex marriage bans
Courts in Arizona, Wyoming, Alaska strike down same-sex marriage bans
Julie Deisher-Edwards
October 18, 2014 06:10:39 am

As of Friday same-sex marriage has become legal in Arizona, Wyoming and Alaska. US District Courts for the Districts of Arizona and Wyoming struck down same-sex marriage bans in Wyoming and Arizona , respectively, on Friday....

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News EU Commission sues Sweden for online betting and poker laws
EU Commission sues Sweden for online betting and poker laws
Elizabeth LaForgia
October 17, 2014 12:49:27 pm

The European Commission filed a lawsuit against Sweden on Thursday for failing to change its laws on online betting and poker games that breach EU law on the free movement of services. The EU referred...

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News Ex-Khmer Rouge genocide trial opens in Cambodia
Ex-Khmer Rouge genocide trial opens in Cambodia
Elizabeth LaForgia
October 17, 2014 12:17:01 pm

The first trial judging charges of genocide against Cambodia's 1970s Khmer Rouge regime opened on Friday with the prosecutor saying it will show that Cambodians were enslaved in inhumane conditions that led to the deaths of...

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News Pakistan court upholds death sentence for Christian woman accused of blasphemy
Pakistan court upholds death sentence for Christian woman accused of blasphemy
Julie Deisher-Edwards
October 17, 2014 08:45:47 am

Pakistan's Lahore High Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence for Aasiya Noreen (better known as Asia Bibi), who was convicted of blasphemy in 2010. Bibi, a Christian woman, was alleged to have insulted the Prophet Mohammed...

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News DOJ seeks stay on release of Guantanamo force-feeding videos
DOJ seeks stay on release of Guantanamo force-feeding videos
Julie Deisher-Edwards
October 17, 2014 08:22:12 am

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a motion in the US District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to stay an order issued by the court earlier this month requiring...

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News Saudi Arabia sentences cleric to death
Saudi Arabia sentences cleric to death
Elizabeth LaForgia
October 16, 2014 03:08:37 pm

Shiite muslim cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was convicted Wednesday of sedition and other charges in Saudi Arabia's Specialized Criminal Court and sentenced to death, raising fears of unrest from his supporters in neighboring Bahrain. Al-Nimr has been a vocal...

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News Colombia farmers sue BP over environmental damage
Colombia farmers sue BP over environmental damage
Elizabeth LaForgia
October 16, 2014 02:02:48 pm

More than 100 Colombian farmers on Wednesday filed a lawsuit with the UK high court against British company Equion Energia , previously known as BP Exploration Colombia (BPXC), for alleged negligence when it built the Ocensa...

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Congress passed Roosevelt's New Deal legislation

On June 16, 1935, Congress passed President Roosevelt's "New Deal" legislation to start a recovery program from Great Depression. Learn more about FDR and the New Deal from the US Library of Congress.

U.K. repeals prohibition on non-conformists at its universities

On June 16, 1871, the United Kingdom passed the University Tests Act, repealing a prohibition on non-conformists at the British Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham. The Tests Acts were a series of laws that started in 1673 and eventually required officeholders, university students, civil servants and other persons associated with the government to swear allegiance to the Anglican Church. The Tests Act was repealed by the Catholic Relief Act of 1829, but the university policy lasted until 1871.

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