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News Bosnia prosecutors indict 10 former soldiers for war crimes
Bosnia prosecutors indict 10 former soldiers for war crimes
Ashley Hogan
April 15, 2015 01:33:34 pm

The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday indicted 10 former Bosnian-Serb soldiers for war crimes committed during the Balkan conflict of the 1990s. The men are accused of imprisoning, torturing and killing 20...

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News Federal appeals court dismisses Wisconsin senator’s health care challenge
Federal appeals court dismisses Wisconsin senator’s health care challenge
Ashley Hogan
April 15, 2015 01:24:21 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit that challenged the fairness of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) for allowing members of Congress and...

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News HRW: asylum-seekers suffering abuse at hands of Serbia police
HRW: asylum-seekers suffering abuse at hands of Serbia police
Julie Deisher-Edwards
April 15, 2015 01:08:02 pm

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Wednesday that asylum-seekers and migrants fleeing war-torn countries are suffering abuse at the hands of Serbian authorities . Most of the asylum-seekers are Syrian or Afghan, travelling through Serbia to seek...

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News Morsi chief of staff jailed for abuse of power
Morsi chief of staff jailed for abuse of power
Taylor Gillan
April 15, 2015 12:54:57 pm

A Cairo criminal court on Wednesday jailed the former chief of staff of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi following his conviction for abuse of power. Refaa al-Tahtawi was sentenced to a three-year jail term and...

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News Canada top court: no legal right to prayer at municipal council meetings
Canada top court: no legal right to prayer at municipal council meetings
Sarah Boehme
April 15, 2015 12:40:51 pm

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled unanimously Wednesday that elected officials do not have the right to open municipal council meetings with a prayer. The country's top court found that reciting a Catholic...

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News UN rights chief calls on Yemen combatants to allow investigation of civilian casualties
UN rights chief calls on Yemen combatants to allow investigation of civilian casualties
Peter Snyder
April 15, 2015 11:22:55 am

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Tuesday urged combatants in the current conflict in Yemen to report attacks resulting in civilian casualties so that they can be investigated and international...

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News Florida senate votes to repeal ban on same-sex adoption
Florida senate votes to repeal ban on same-sex adoption
Peter Snyder
April 15, 2015 10:56:48 am

The Florida Senate voted Tuesday to repeal the State's ban on same-sex adoption . The Senate voted 27-11 to repeal the law, which has been on the books in Florida since 1977. The...

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News Guam AG directs issuance of same-sex marriage licenses
Guam AG directs issuance of same-sex marriage licenses
William Helbling
April 15, 2015 10:34:25 am

The Attorney General of Guam on Wednesday directed officials to begin processing same-sex marriage applications. The action by Attorney General Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson comes two weeks after a same-sex couple brought a suit in the US territory challenging...

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EU initiates antitrust proceedings against Google
William Helbling
April 15, 2015 10:34:22 am

The European Commission on Wednesday initiated antitrust proceedings against Google accusing the company of utilizing their dominant position in the search engine market to hurt competitors. The commission sent Google a Statement of...

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News Amnesty: Boko Haram has abducted at least 2,000 women since 2014
Amnesty: Boko Haram has abducted at least 2,000 women since 2014
Bradley McAllister
April 15, 2015 08:23:52 am

Boko Haram has abducted at least 2,000 women and girls in Nigeria since the start of 2014, Amnesty International (AI) said Monday in a new report detailing the extreme violence and crimes against humanity committed...

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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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